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Before SOFIA there was AOA, "airborne optical adjunct", a military project probably funded by the fake Star Wars anti-missile program that spooked USSR into cra
by ncmncm 4y ago
Before SOFIA there was AOA, "airborne optical adjunct", a military project probably funded by the fake Star Wars anti-missile program that spooked USSR into crashing their economy. Same configuration, a 747 with a hole in the top, IR telescope inside. It is just possible it was the same actual airframe.
My brother worked on that stabilization. It had 3 levels of it.
- david38 4y agoStar Wars worked beautifully for its actual intended purpose, which you mentioned.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt was kind of hard on Russian people, though, considering they had so little say in how things were done at the time. Not as hard as Stalin, or even Lenin. But it seems like if more had been done, we would not be in the present fix.