What subsequent operational complexity was introduced by installing COSTAR?
Answer
It created a doubled optical train (mirror, then COSTAR, then instrument optics).
The installation of COSTAR meant that for many years, light traveled through the flawed primary mirror, then the corrective optics of COSTAR, and finally the instrument's own optics, increasing operational complexity.
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