Leveraging Modular Assembly & Reduced Launch Costs for Space Telescopes
Leverage the reduced launch costs enabled by vehicles like Starship and employ modular assembly techniques to build telescopes more rapidly and economically.
Resources (4)
Project Nautilus
Technology Seed
It’s Time to Build the Exoplanet Telescope, by Casey Handmer
Whitepapers and Essays
R&D Gaps (1)
The current model for building space telescopes is cost-prohibitive and slow, often requiring decades of development. New approaches that exploit reduced launch costs and modular assembly are needed to accelerate telescope construction and reduce costs, and there needs to be the organizational struc...