I’ve been binging Goldratt lately, so my brain is awash in Theory of Constraints.
It’s okay to use “old” equipment to offload from a bottleneck. Space based telescopes are going to be a bottleneck for the foreseeable future. They have severe maintenance restrictions and the more you task swap them the more frequent that maintenance.
So from a constraint perspective, you use ground based observation to do anything that can be done without a space telescope. Including trying to determine which patches of sky justify time on JWT.
It’s okay to use “old” equipment to offload from a bottleneck. Space based telescopes are going to be a bottleneck for the foreseeable future. They have severe maintenance restrictions and the more you task swap them the more frequent that maintenance.
So from a constraint perspective, you use ground based observation to do anything that can be done without a space telescope. Including trying to determine which patches of sky justify time on JWT.