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They can be made even cheaper if you reconfigure the mission goals to be taking blurry pictures of the moon.
I don’t know how much of a factor the cost of the components themselves were in the ballooning costs of the JWST, but if COTS could represent a major savings in cost without compromising the performance of the spacecraft and risking catastrophic equipment failure in the harsh environment of deep space, I’m all for it.