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Originally Posted by Ultramaroon
It's decent but not amazing. The amazing part is that they can achieve that level of precision and repeatability in such a thermally hostile environment. It's easy in a temperature-controlled clean room.
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I think you mean accuracy. I think the thermal environment at the Lagrange point is pretty consistent, but very different from the lab where it was developed. If all parameters remain constant then precision should be pretty straightforward regardless of environment. If the overall conditions are different than expected (but otherwise constant), accuracy will be degraded.
For the non engineers:
Accuracy: the ability to put an arrow on target
Precision: the ability to put two arrows in the same place when aiming at some common target