An “incident” with the James Webb Space Telescope has occurred

> Building Webb has been difficult because its 6.5-meter mirror needs to unfurl itself once it reaches an orbit about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. This is an exceedingly complex process, and there are more than 300 single points of failure

So in 2 years or so when starship is up and running, is it going to be orders of magnitude cheaper to build the thing you put in orbit as well as orders of magnitude cheaper to get it there?

The JWST won't be "in orbit". The L2 Lagrange point technically orbits the sun and is far out of reach even for starship. There's currently no way to service the thing if something goes wrong.

I thought Starship was meant to be able to go anywhere in the solar system?

This telescope has been stressing me out for years and my heart sank when this headline popped into my newsfeed this morning.

TLDR: Telescope was being attached to the vehicle, a clamp unexpectedly opened, "vibrations" were felt, launch date pushed to 22 December. Full test being conducted, currently ahead of schedule.

Here's hoping all the eggs don't fall out of this basket.

They dropped it?