If the promises made for new launch systems like SpaceX' Starship (and maybe even, one day, in some unknown future, Bezos' Blue Origin manages to launch something larger than a phallic pond hopper?) it should become radically less expensive to launch larger telescopes into orbit and/or to e.g. the moon.
That "should" needs a lot of backing up, and I don't understand why we need to singlehandedly rely on the same company creating the issues to apparently solve them with wishful thinking.
> I don't understand why we need to singlehandedly rely on the same company creating the issues to apparently solve them with wishful thinking.
It is because you did not start your own re-usable space vehicle company. Bezos did but thus far he seems to treat it as a billionaire's toy, throwing a few fellow class members just over the Kármán line. There's a few others making attempts to actually get to space - Rocket Labs etc. - but mostly it comes down to Musk's creation which opened the door to radically lower costs, i.e. without them the usual suspects would have had no reason to keep on pushing 70's technology at whatever price they manage to extract from the governments and the market.
