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With the advent of Starship and mass production of satellites (Spacex can build up to 7 per day currently - faster than they can launch them at present), we have an opportunity to put a constellation of cheap, powerful space telescopes into high LEO (1500Km or so - at lower edge of the Van Allen...

The space shuttle had killed about 14 people by then (2 crews - no abort capability) and cost $1.5billion/launch in 2011 dollars. It was a failure compared to conventional rockets (re-usability as designed was far more expensive than one-shot rockets and it was far more dangerous). It was...