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Originally Posted by Wavytone
More the other way around. Hubble was basically a modified K2 spy satellite pointing up instead of down. Unfortunately for NASA, much of the details on the design were classified military secrets and NASA had to discover these for themselves. If the CIA had been allowed to share what it knew, the stuff-up re the primary mirror and other technical issues with precision guidance would not have arisen.
Hmmm. Perhaps the cheesgrater should be renamed “baby Hubble”.
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It's a pity they can't point this baby around at the heavens.
This is a Hubble I never knew about.
Maybe there are even more of them?
Notice an amateur astronomer with a 10" diameter telescope
has taken pictures of it and it looks like the Hubble!
cheers
Allan