A new space telescope is poised to fly sometime in the first quarter of 2026, looking nothing like the exoplanet observatories that went aloft before it and doing nothing like the job they’ve done. The latest planet hunter, dubbed Pandora, is a flyweight machine, tipping the scales at just 716 lbs. and measuring just 17 inches across, not counting its solar panel. That’s a rounding error compared to the Webb telescope, which is as large as a tennis court and weighs 13,000 lbs. Pandora will