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		garmaine on Sept 1, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What a tweet tells us about spy satellites [video] Hubble was built by the same contractors that build the Keyhole satellites. They whole idea from the beginning was to reuse the spy satellite hardware for astronomy.

Phlarp on Sept 1, 2019 [–]

Almost everything is reusable between these applications, just need a flatter mirror. Which was also what they screwed up.

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