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Re:What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video] by garmaine on Sunday September 01, 2019 @04:52PM (#20854810)
Hubble was built by the same contractors that build the Keyhole satellites. They whole idea from the beginning was to reuse the spy satellite hardware for astronomy.
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Re:What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video] by Phlarp on Sunday September 01, 2019 @05:47PM (#20855183)
Almost everything is reusable between these applications, just need a flatter mirror. Which was also what they screwed up.
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