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@Aegolius And with the increased time span, there is even more hope of a refuel mission getting off the ground. They have said they are looking into that too, as a future robotic mission.
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Late and over budget for the right reasons. Northrop Grumman was involved, so everything gets really expensive and has to be double checked by more qualified people. And the later delays was to secure more funding. You need to play the budget game to get funding in the US. The military are masters at it as the revolving door to the industrial complex is swinging like crazy. Or you can just say corruption. But then people think of money bags being exchanged, which isn't really how corruption works in the 21st century.
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And on a micron level. Truly amazing engineering.
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@joevignolor4u949 Oh how naive, thinking it comes down to estimation mistakes. Yeah, I think you need to dig deeper to figure out why the Navy for example budgets for less ships that it needs every single year, and lets congress add funding to cover the gaps. And when covering gaps, things then do have a habit of slipping down into them...
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@susmarcon American? You must be swimming in those false equivalences. There is a reason the US is classified as a flawed democracy, and not a full democracy like most western nations.
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@joevignolor4u949 Yes I understand this perfectly well, and I'm still telling you not to be so naive. This is not an estimation error. Or the fault of picking the cheapest option. This is 21st century corruption. The one without money in briefcases, but enormous government contracts. There is a reason so many key military commanders turn up in the military industrial complex with astronomical salaries after retirement.
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@PygmalionFaciebat I think it's more the lesson learnt from Hubble, and the need to send up astronauts to put glasses on it just because it had no focus adjustment. And if you want an adjusting mirror, the step isn't large to making it fold so not to be limited by the launch vehicle, like Hubble was. It almost goes hand in hand. If you want a folding mirror, it has to be adjustable. If you want a adjustable mirror, one way to do it is to have segments, which you then can fold. Yeah, with the over 300 mission ending failure points I was a pessimist I must say. But hey, we are not out of the woods yet I think.
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