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There's no way the cost would be minimal. I would even wager that it would be just as or more expensive to build a duplicate than to build a new design based upon what was learned. Given the decades over which the James Webb Telescope was developed, it has parts and designs in it that are, well, decades old.

And the bill of materials is unlikely to have been the primary cost factor. Extensive research, development, and testing was performed.



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