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Originally Posted by Jules76
Designed to operate for 5 years, but they are hoping to get 10 years of service. If they learned from the mistakes they made with Hubble and get things right, who's to say 10 years is not achievable?
And if everything I've heard about it is correct in it's ability to see further and gather more data than Hubble, it could possibly do more in it's 5-10 years of operation than Hubble has in 21 years.
That's worth it IMO.
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5 times cheaper and better
http://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/owl/index_3.html