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How much did the James Webb Space Telescope cost?
Total cost of development, construction and launch
💡 A 6.5 m gold-coated mirror, a sunshield as big as a tennis court – and decades of delays.
Answer
€8.5B
€8,500,000,000 · Total cost · 2021
Originally planned at around US$0.5B. The foldable sunshield and 18 mirror segments made it extremely complex.
About US$10B, converted at the 2021 rate.
Source: NASA (via Wikipedia)
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