Re:US military's mysterious X-37B space plane zooms toward o...
by cratermoon on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @09:00PM
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It's kind of an open secret that the space shuttle payload bay dimensions were specified to fit the satellites the NRO used[1]. Similarly, the Hubble Space Telescope is widely acknowledged to be based on the KH-11 Kennen, and the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is unused NRO hardware from the Future Imagery Architecture[2]
1 https://mashable.com/article/nasa-space-shuttle-secret-spy-s...
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telesc...