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by darknavi 1643 days ago
> However, I'm always baffled how everyone seems proud that the telescope has something like 200 SPOF during deployment, and if even one of them fails the whole mission could fail.

I'm not sure I've seen anyone who is _proud_ of it, lots of people are just setting expectations. Probably due to the similarities with Hubble (although JWST can self-align it's mirrors!).

It also might be posturing to show how well the thing is built. Space is hard, like really hard, and these agencies keep knocking it out of the park.