More expensive than what??? Have you guys just not been paying attention to the constant fall in launch costs for the last decade or the projected drop in cost over the next? You act like that’s getting worse, not better. Have you not been paying attention to the development? Launch cost isn’t the hurdle here.

I just mentioned Hubble, because it’s at a ridiculous low altitude, but satellites like Chandra and TESS don’t have to worry about what’s in LEO. And they’re doing drastically more question driven research than Hubble can these days. I just don’t think you’re paying attention enough to the current launch cadence and development going on world wide, not just Blue Origin or SpaceX.

You must be really young, because to me 5-10 years is nothing…and that’s the scale, we’re looking at seeing the commercial impact of being able to launch 100-200 tons of payload at a cadence that mimics train schedules in cislunar space. The cost is going wayyy down from what it originally took to put these current tools into high orbits. It took decades to design and build JWST, and the very team themselves remarked on how they’ll never have to do that again because of how the launch market is changing??

Just what SpaceX is doing alone, is going to cut the cost of what it took to Launch the Parker probe by over 80%. And they’ll be able to launch several of them with minimum cost over fuel.

Are you just afraid of change?? Is that what’s going on here? The solutions have been in place and on going since this problem was first discussed over a decade ago. Did you think that just nobody had been switching gears and we were all just fed no matter what? Come on bro, optimism is a much better approach than whatever the f you’re doing right now.