US satellite spy agency donates telescopes to NASA NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source — the nation's satellite spy agency. U.S. Spy Satellite Agency Gives NASA 2 Space Telescopes The United States' spy satellite agency is giving NASA two spare space telescopes free of charge, each potentially more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA officials announced today (June 4). NASA Invites Social Media Fans to Mars Landing Event NASA will host a 3-day NASA Social for 25 of its social media followers Aug. 3-5 at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA gets two military spy telescopes for astronomy The U.S. government's secret space program has decided to give NASA two telescopes as big as, and even more powerful than, the Hubble Space Telescope. Designed for surveillance, the telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office were no longer needed for spy missions and can now be used to study the heavens. Read full article >> NASA Joins Girl Scouts Celebrating 100 Years of Inspiration and Empowerment NASA will mark the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America by hosting a Girl Scouts Rock@NASA event from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. June 8 in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium located at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA gets 2 telescopes from spy satellite agency The two spy satellite telescopes were to fly space-based surveillance missions, but will be repurposed for astronomical research Huge New Mexico Wildfire Spotted by NASA Satellite A NASA Earth-observing satellite has snapped a photo of the huge wildfire chewing up vast swathes of southwestern New Mexico. NASA Gets a Hand-Me-Down from Spy Agency: Two Space Telescopes | 80beats The Hubble Space Telescope. The new scopes are shorter, designed for peering down . NASA announced some exciting news yesterday : apparently, the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency that looks after the US's spy satellites, had a couple of Hubble-scale space telescopes lying around. In a warehouse in upstate New York. In bits and pieces, lacking the requisite solar panels and cameras to ... NASA's Stubby Hubbles and Fumbled PR Just after 11:00 on Monday morning Twitter postings appeared saying that the Washington Post and New York Times were running with parallel stories about how NASA had been given two spy satellites by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). Federal satellite spy agency gives NASA two telescopes NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source — the nation's satellite spy agency.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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