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Sitting here in the never-ending Zoom meeting hellscape that work has become, I took a few minutes off to mull on something. About flagship missions and our ability to fund them, and how we can build the next great observatories. This thread is the result. (1/ )
First, let’s note we are at a very interesting time, and no, I don’t mean COVID. At this moment, four things are roughly coincident: 1) Chandra's 20th, 2) Hubble's 30th, 3) Spitzer's end, and 4) Astro2020 (2/)
Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer constitute 3/4 of NASA's "Great Observatories" (Compton was the 4th, and its mission ended in 2000). By far, the impact of these missions together exceeds the sum of the parts (3/)
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