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From: prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)
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Subject: Re: Hubble Space Telescope goes Recon
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Date: 23 Apr 91 10:15:49 GMT
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From: prentice%triton.unm.edu@ariel.unm.edu (John Prentice)


XBRX@VAX5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU (Egan H. Greenstein) writes:
>In [a novel], "they" use the Hubble Space Telescope as a recon satellite. My
>question is, IS THIS POSSIBLE???

Why bother?  This would be a hell of a lot of work to go through and
it uses 10 or 15 year old technology.  I suspect the DoD could do better
than this without much trouble.  Actually, the real pity of the Hubble
is that DoD was so concerned about security that they prevented proper
inspection of the mirror grinding facilities and apparently hampered
proper testing (as I recall).

-- 
John K. Prentice    john@unmfys.unm.edu (Internet)
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Computational Physics Group, Amparo Corporation, Albuquerque, NM, USA