It’s a shame that most of America will hear news about the successful launch and just kind of shrug and say “that’s kind of neat that they launched a satellite on Christmas”, then go back to their day.
The geometry and complexity of the satellite are impressive, grtting the vehicle to the orbit is impressive and more complicated than normal, the mission, while not particularly sexy like shooting men to the moon or setting off nukes on Mars or something, is very interesting to science, and as complicated and expensive as the whole mission is, it’s the simplest, cheapest way for science to gather the types of information that they’ve chosen to look for.
I’m not sure on that in the medium to long term. If this thing works like it should it’ll be hailed in the media a lot. Hubble sure has been, everyone knows about it. NASAs been doing really good work with the Mars and exploration work in general for a long time now, so I’m not surprised it’s not the biggest news for now. Last I saw Ingenuity on Mars was still flying, but no peep in the media much after the 2nd or 3rd flight.