10-01-2016, 06:38 AM
The two spy satellite telescopes were originally built to fly space-based surveillance missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
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NASA hopes to use one of the new space telescopes to hunt for mysterious dark energy, an invisible force that scientists think is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.
What an appropriate re-purposing of the satellites. From Black Ops, to Dark Matter!
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (1547-1616)
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NASA hopes to use one of the new space telescopes to hunt for mysterious dark energy, an invisible force that scientists think is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.
What an appropriate re-purposing of the satellites. From Black Ops, to Dark Matter!
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (1547-1616)
“We do this thing not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.”