Private and Billionaire-Backed Initiatives Drive Next-Gen Space and Ground Telescopes
Originally Published 4 days ago — by SpaceNews
A billionaire-backed organization, Schmidt Sciences, is developing a suite of four observatories, including Lazuli, a large space telescope comparable to Hubble but at a fraction of the cost and in a shorter timeframe, aiming for launch around 2028 to advance astrophysics and cosmology research.