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by rklaehn 1919 days ago
That would be awesome PR, and not that expensive with starship.

But for low production rate things like telescopes, launch cost is almost negligible even at current launch prices.

A replacement for hubble could be launched with a single falcon 9. Building it would cost more than a billion.

The James Webb Telescope is at 10 billion USD and counting. Launch with very expensive Ariane 5 will cost maybe 200 million USD, so ~2%.