Astro2020 Activity Proposal: Affordable Large Space Observatories

David Van Buren, 2 Sarah Hovsepian, Margaret Frerking, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, Jeffrey Jewell, Nemanja Jovanovic, David C. Redding, and Susan Terebey 1Corresponding author: david.vanburen@jpl.nasa.gov, +1 (818) 393-6082 2NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91109, USA 3University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, USA 4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA 91125, USA 5California State University, Los Angeles CA 90032, USA (Dated: July 10, 2019)

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