>>12361284>But one day they might produce more of these on mass,No they won't. This single satellite took 12 years to make. The James Webb Space Telescope has been in development for twice that time. The "tried and true" space companies try to maximize payload at any cost, which means anything that gets sent into space has to also be hyper optimized beyond the point of reasonability. They're stuck in the autistic engineer's mindset instead of advancing into industrial development methods. If they made rockets to be cheap and quick it wouldn't matter if their payloads were only half that of current rockets because you could send up 100 times as many. Alternatively, and much better now, is going for reusable rockets like SpaceX is, which the established space companies are spooked by because the Shuttle was supposed to be reusable and it only marginally reduced its cost per launch to the point that it wouldn't have been much worse to just launch a brand new one every single time, so they've come to think reusable is just refurbishable like the Shuttle. There's also the problem that for a long time companies were encouraged to be slow as fuck and not get shit done because the longer they could drag out the development the more they could get paid.
Also if mass production of anything was even remotely close to being on the radar of any space companies then rockets like Sea Dragon would have been built.
