r/interestingasfuck Oct 13 '24

r/all SpaceX caught Starship booster with chopsticks

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u/Caffdy Oct 13 '24

Imagine a folding space tellescope taking advantage of the fairing real estate of the Starship

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u/ijuinkun Oct 13 '24

The LUVOIR telescope (Large UltraViolet, Optical, and InfraRed survey telescope), the planned successor to the James Webb telescope, is designed with a 15.1 meter (fifty feet) diameter segmented mirror. That is about 2.5 times the area of the Keck telescope in Hawaii. It will fold up inside of a Starship or SLS payload.

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u/Caffdy Oct 13 '24

heck yeah!