In comparison the aperture on the two NRO telescopes is much larger- 94 in. The top recommendation of the committee is for NASA to develop what was envisioned initially to be a $1.5 billion Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) with a 59 inch aperture. Photo Credit: The Space ReviewĪlan Dressler, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science told the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics that the NRO gift is “a game-changing opportunity to accomplish priority science programs New Worlds New Horizons” decadal survey completed in late 2010. KH-11s are also capable of “SatSquared” imaging of other spacecraft from great distances and they imaged the tile conditions on the belly of the orbiter Columbia during STS-1, STS-2 and other space shuttle missions. This matches the hardware given to NASA by the NRO and telescopic views of KH-11s in space imaged from observatories. Highly accurate model of a top secret KH-11 digital imaging recon satellite in space illustrates the “Stubby Hubble” KH-11 characteristic with a shorter telescope tube and shorter focal length as well as a much smaller aft instrument bay than the full scale Hubble shown below. Highly mysterious dark energy accounts for 70% of gravitational-like forces in the cosmos that are now pushing continued expansion of the universe. Senior NASA and university astronomers have inspected the twin mirrored optics and found them to be superior to the Hubble Space Telescope for detecting and imaging extrasolar planets and gathering evidence to define dark energy.
NRO says the telescopes which have high tech lightweight mirrors far more advanced than Hubble’s were manufactured between the late 1990s and early 2000s. The design of the legendary National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) KH-11 type digital imaging reconnaissance spacecraft, top secret for 36 years, has been revealed by the NRO’s transfer to NASA of two surplus recon satellite telescopes which NASA now hopes can be outfitted to look up instead of down.
Graphic characterizes the off track imaging capability of the NRO KH-11 Reconnaissance spacecraft.
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