On 2005-02-19, Andrew Nowicki wrote:

If JWST is launched into the L2 point, it will
sizzle in the sunlight almost as much as the
Hubble Space Telescope. If something goes wrong

Goodness, it's amazing you thought of that, because Lord knows the
engineers designing billion-dollar flagship projects never think to do
the maths...

My conclusion: James Webb Space Telescope
should be redesigned to improve its thermal
insulation and compatibility with telerobots,
and then launched into low Earth orbit.

....compatibility with telerobots. Why am I not surprised?

This happens every damn couple of months. Something new is announced -
CEV, or SS1, or hypothetical telerobot servicers, or Kliper, or the ESA
Soyuz pads... and it becomes Flavour Of The Month to solve every
possible problem (especially if it doesn't actually exist yet). An dit
hangs around for a while, and in time it'll be forgotten and replaced
with something else new! shiny!

(What was the 'Dilbert' comment? "We need a nano-technology stem cell to
fight terrorism..."

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-Andrew Gray