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No, it can't be pointed at the inner solar system or Earth; too bright, and its heat shield would point the wrong way. But the military doesn't need it. Suppos
by feoren 3y ago
No, it can't be pointed at the inner solar system or Earth; too bright, and its heat shield would point the wrong way.
But the military doesn't need it. Supposedly some military tech was declassified recently showing that the military had Hubble-level telescopes about 15 years before Hubble. So whatever they are using is much better (and more specialized, of course) than Webb.
- wredue 3y agoNot sure the technology needed is quite the same. They probably have better up there, but we know that military satellites are able to see the individual poles in a chain link fence crisply due to Trump leaking that capability a few years ago on twitter.
- euroderf 3y agoSure, the military had the test rig to pre-flight test Hubble's optics, except that someone slipped up and well dang, Hubble needed corrective lenses.
- eep_social 3y agoHere’s an article from 2012 describing the military donating two unlaunched hubble-class telescopes to NASA: https://newatlas.com/spysatellite/22813/ https://newatlas.com/spysatellite/22813/