Keith’s note: Early this morning the @NewHorizons twitter posted “RT @AlanStern: Just announced: Pluto has new company– We’ve discovered a 5th moon using the Hubble Space Telescope!”. Why did the […]
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These Are Not The Telescopes NASA Was Looking For
NRO Gifts NASA Two Leftover Space Telescopes, SpacePolicyOnline “The CAA’s response to the newswas rather muted. The reaction was surprisingly flat for a community that received a fairly valuable gift. […]
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Are NASA's New Telescopes NRO Future Imagery Architecture Leftovers?
Spy agency gives NASA two spare Hubbles, Washington Post “I’m told by a government engineer with knowledge of the new instruments that they’re “a successful part of an otherwise failed […]
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NASA's Two New Space Telescopes: Gifts or Headaches?
NASA’s Stubby Hubbles and Fumbled PR “Moore said that the hardware had been “declassified” so that NASA could use it. So, I asked, since it was “declassified”, what the names […]
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NRO Gives NASA Two Hubble-Class Telescopes (Shh!)
NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy, Washington Post “The U.S. government’s secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful […]
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Extending Missions, Operating Hubble Means Cuts Elsewhere
NASA Astrophysics Urged To Slim Down, Aviation Week “The SRC strongly urges the HST to consider all possible avenues, vigorously pursuing ways to accelerate cost reductions without compromising mission safety […]
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Shameless Kissing Up To Congress at STScI
Space Astronomy Archive and Supernova Are Named for Senator Barbara Mikulski “One of the world’s largest astronomy archives, containing a treasure trove of information about myriad stars, planets, and galaxies, […]
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Webb Space Telescope Events on Capitol Hill Today
Panel Discussion: U.S. Leadership in Astronomy: Space Telescopes Today, Tomorrow and Beyond “Featuring: Eric Smith, NASA Headquarters, Dr. John Grunsfeld, Deputy Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dr. Meg […]
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Hubble Makes Another Unusual Discovery
Hubble Zooms In on a Space Oddity “One of the strangest space objects ever seen is being scrutinized by the penetrating vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A mysterious, glowing, […]
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Help Keep Daily Hubble Status Reports Online
“For the past decades we have been posting the HST Daily Status Reports to this newsgroup for interested readers, and those people who use the HST as part of their […]