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		modeless on Jan 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX tests black satellite to reduce ‘megaconste... That's one of the reasons I'm excited about SpaceX's Starship. It has a large diameter, so space telescope mirrors can be much bigger with less folding.

C14L on Jan 16, 2020 [–]

And it will (hopefully) be able to fly to the moon "for cheap" and put large, land-based telescopes in the best location there is for telescopes.

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