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Re:Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, re... by jacobr1 on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:05PM (#32113678)
Didn't we do that with hubble? We built 1 hubble, but many more "hubble-like" spy satellites and found out about them when they were donated back to nasa to put toward civilian use.
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Re:Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, re... by magila on Friday July 15, 2022 @07:53PM (#32113983)
Hubble's design borrowed various elements, including the primary mirror, from existing KH-11 spy satellites as a cost saving measure.

The satellites which were donated to NASA by the NRO where likely leftover from the abortive Future Imagery Architecture program which was unrelated to Hubble.

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