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Next generation of giant telescopes on the ground and in orbit will each cost billions of dollars .
The next generation of extremely large telescopes will have 100 times the light-gathering power and 10 times the image quality of the Hubble Space Telescope .
The Thirty Meter Telescope ( TMT ) project uses a design with 492 mirror segments.
It faces headwinds from the opposition of native Hawaiians to construction of another large telescope on Mauna Kea .
Big capital projects leave less money to spend on other forms of research.
SpaceX's Starship could be used to launch a 6.5-meter mirror in one piece, avoiding the complicated and expensive folding mirrors used by JSWT.
The same innovations used with ground-based telescopes could cut the cost of telescopes in space.
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