>>13563678It will be seen as a big failure of a government program. Depending on who they're able to blame it on, the media will either ignore it or have wall to wall coverage for months. For the astronomical community, it's going to suck. No replacement will be launched. Government space telescopes will be extinct. Maybe someday a commercial entity will use the tech of the day and reasonable project management to launch something better at a singe digit percentage of the cost.
