>>12895093Because it's a huge expensive failure and it sucked literally billions away from more promising projects for something that has a like 65% chance of failure, and accomplishes very little for that price tag. It's NASA incompetence in physical form.
>>12895106No. It is huge, which is why it has had so many issues. The current plan is to put it in a meme orbit that follows the Earth around the sun instead of LEO or GEO or whatever. We literally cannot get astronauts to it's location if something goes wrong, which is why it has to deploy itself and there's only one chance of getting it right. There is some merit to the decision because Earth is bright as fuck in sun light and the glare is really hard to block out, but they could still have put it around the Moon or something and at least have the ability to maybe fix it in the future. Instead they went with the aforementioned meme orbit that makes any physical fix impossible.
