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Rocket Lab-built Mars smallsats arrive at launch site (spacenews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This is going to sound weird given my surprise, but JWST seems smaller than I expected! I definitely expected the mirror array to be like 10 or 20 people tall or more, not 3.

To be fair, I also didn't expect Hubble's mirror to be not much bigger than a person.

All the ground based telescopes throw off my expectations.

Edit: Actually, I think it's the radio telescopes throwing off my expectations