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NASA Gets Two Military Spy Telescopes For Astronomy

Posted by samzenpus on from the hand-me-downs-for-the-heavens dept.

First time accepted submitter SomePgmr writes "The U.S. government's secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office were no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens."

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  1. Re:Satellites still need to be launched by Sparticus789 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I spend all day at working writing up responses to posts which haven't yet happened on /. , in the hopes that I will be able to swoop in with a insightful long post that quickly. However nobody ever posts about Barney or Daredevil 2.

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  2. Re:Satellites still need to be launched by icebike · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, when their orbits are designed to overfly interesting places in the (former) USSR or China, how likely are they to overfly interesting stuff stateside?

    How likely? 100% chance.
    Do spend a little time reading up on orbital mechanics some day.

    Don't be like Tom Clancy, who wrote in one of his novels that the CIA had a satellite in geostationary orbit over the north pole.

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  3. Re:Satellites still need to be launched by nedlohs · · Score: 5, Funny

    All you need to a lot of fuel. Of course orbit is really the wrong term.