Re:US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward o...
by adhesive_wombat on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @07:09PM
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Certainly not optical spying, it's not big enough because of diffraction limits. The old NRO telescopes are basically Hubbles that point down, so they have a mirror about 2 metres across and probably a resolution somewhat better than Hubble (30cm on the surface).
They even donated the chassis of some[1] to NASA once they were thoroughly obsolete. Imagine what the new ones can do if a Hubble-alike was such old hat it didn't even need to be secret.
Also imagine if we'd been able to put a fleet of Hubbles out there rather than just one!
They even donated the chassis of some[1] to NASA once they were thoroughly obsolete. Imagine what the new ones can do if a Hubble-alike was such old hat it didn't even need to be secret.
Also imagine if we'd been able to put a fleet of Hubbles out there rather than just one!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...