NASA Mulls Spy Agency’s Telescopes for Dark-Energy Mission

NASA is considering requesting money in next year’s budget to eventually start using two space telescopes it received from the United States’ spy satellite agency, a senior official told Space.com.

NASA received the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 2012. They have the same resolution as the agency’s famous Hubble Space Telescope, but a field of view 200 times wider.

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NASA is considering requesting money in next year’s budget

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Forget this project , NASA is still hitching rides to ISS.

CrazyNeutrino said:

NASA Mulls Spy Agency’s Telescopes for Dark-Energy Mission

NASA is considering requesting money in next year’s budget to eventually start using two space telescopes it received from the United States’ spy satellite agency, a senior official told Space.com.

NASA received the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 2012. They have the same resolution as the agency’s famous Hubble Space Telescope, but a field of view 200 times wider.

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Oh excellent. I heard a rumour about the existence of those two ex-spy satellite space telescopes from this forum several years ago. I asked a NASA employee about them only a month and a half ago and he denied that they existed, even though he did say that the USA has put up about 15 spy satellites in the space shuttle and that at least several of those have telescopes equivalent in power to Hubble’s.

Having a much wider field of view is excellent, I didn’t know that they had that.