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by wolfd 1639 days ago
I think that the other commenter was referring to the relative complexity in JWST's unfolding/deployment. It might be possible to deploy something from Starship that doesn't need to be packed as tightly (and save on engineering costs there) and still get around the same performance.

A complicated sunshield deployment seems somewhat inevitable, personally, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong there.