SpaceX Successfully Launches U.S. NRO Spy Satellite (With video) “SpaceX launched a spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) early this morning after a one day delay. The […]
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NASA's Secret Past
NASA’s Secret Relationships with U.S. Defense and Intelligence Agencies, George Washington University “Furnishing cover stories for covert operations, monitoring Soviet missile tests, and supplying weather data to the U.S. military […]
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Free NRO Telescopes Will Cost NASA More
Redesign of Planned Space Telescope Would Add Scientific Capabilities, Costs to Original Mission “However, the inherited hardware was designed for another purpose, and the degree to which changes to the […]
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"Another Government Agency" Gave NASA Spy Satellite Hardware
NASA Request for Information: Concepts for Applications of Large Space Optics “NASA is soliciting broad community inputs in support of a study activity focused on utilization of large flight qualified […]
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How Much Will the Free NRO Space Telescopes Cost?
The telescopes that came in from the cold, Nature “Some astronomers, however, are questioning whether the value of the free hardware– each NRO telescope is worth at least US$250 million– […]
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NASA Seeks Members for NRO Hardware Study Group
>Notice of Intent to Solicit Science Definition Team for National Reconnaissance Orbiter Optical Hardware via Dear Colleague Letter – NRO Gives NASA Two Hubble-Class Telescopes (Shh!), earlier post – NASA’s […]
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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 […]