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Carl Sagan 12m Space Telescope?


Sunshine

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This gave me a lump in my throat as Carl Sagan with Cosmos sparked my love for everything astronomy as a child. This observatory is a proposal and no funding has been secured but the paper trail has started and who knows? maybe in 2034 on Carl Sagan's hundredth birthday we may have a new space observatory, a fitting honor. Than again, this is NASA timelines we’re talking about so laugh date will be closer to his two hundredth birthday, I won’t live to see it. 🥲

 

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Maybe they can just scale up the JWST design since it has be very much a success. 

Having a launch vehicle large enough to get it up could be a problem.  The SLS  or maybe a SpaceX Super Heavy could do it.

Lets hope they can get it funded.

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Could be designed to be folded into a similar sized package as JWST since the individual mirror segments are still very small. More complex no doubt but the current space origami team might feel confident about it since Webb worked out so well.

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