08-17-2016, 06:54 AM
It is going to be possible to have thousands of space based telescopes within 2 years. There will be hundreds going into orbit over that time.
In the year 2015 there was a worldwide total of 87 rocket launches, 82 successful, for all types of satellites. Not sure if any were space based telescopes but here's the list if anyone would like to check:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_spaceflight
The moon kind of surprises me sometimes. I’ll be out at night and I’ll see a nice moon, and say, “Hey, that looks good.” Then I’ll say, “Oh sh-t, I went up there one time!” Kind of surprises me. It’s like there are two Moons, you know—the one that’s usually around, and then that one. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut
In the year 2015 there was a worldwide total of 87 rocket launches, 82 successful, for all types of satellites. Not sure if any were space based telescopes but here's the list if anyone would like to check:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_in_spaceflight
The moon kind of surprises me sometimes. I’ll be out at night and I’ll see a nice moon, and say, “Hey, that looks good.” Then I’ll say, “Oh sh-t, I went up there one time!” Kind of surprises me. It’s like there are two Moons, you know—the one that’s usually around, and then that one. - Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”