SpaceShip One to Fly at Oshkosh

"Morgans" wrote ...

I'm not as up with all of the satelite stuff, but am interested. What is
the HST optics, and what does that have to do with Hubble, and a black
project, right in front of our eyes?

Jim

HST means Hubble Space Telescope. After the one point five billion dollar
Hubble was launched it was discovered that that it couldn't see the stars
very well. An investigation discovered that the wrong mirror had been built
into the spacecraft. Like they've got large mirrors laying around
everywhere and this was a simple mistake. Oops. Or was it a mistake? The
company that made the mirror also made mirrors for US spy satellites. Could
it be "the wrong mirror" was installed on purpose so that the hubble became
a replacement spy satellite?

Rich