Posts in the past four weeks
Friday
Jun 08 2012
23:49 UTC
Today the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) announced that it has given NASA not one but two fully-constructed space telescopes, roughly equivalent to Hubble with a wider field of view. The telescopes, which were offered to NASA about a year ago (a team of scientists has been considering whether to accept them in the meantime), come with all their hardware minus instruments - a total value to the agency of hundreds of millions of dollars plus years of lead time. Categories: Current EventsTags:
Posted by astrobites
Wednesday
Jun 06 2012
20:52 UTC
The US Department of Defense isn't known for its charitable giving. So there's been much chatter this week over the surprise news (to me, in any case) that the agency has gifted NASA with two 2. 4-m telescopes. That's the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope, but with a much bigger field of view (100
Posted by SarahAskew
Monday
Jun 04 2012
17:37 UTC
NASA will be getting two unused space surveillance satellites from the US's National Reconnaissance Office, which could possibly be used to search for dark energy. In articles in the Washington Post and the New York Times, NASA and NRO officials revealed the two unused and not-fully-built satellites are available for NASA to use as they
Posted by Universe Today
Monday
Jun 04 2012
17:32 UTC
Reblogged from The e-Astronomer: Not often I write two posts in one day, but here is an unexpected piece of news. It seems that the US National Reconnaisance Office have given two free telescopes to NASA. Its all explained at this NY Times article. They are as big as HST but have a wider field
Posted by In The Dark
Monday
Jun 04 2012
16:34 UTC
... would be perfect for WFIRST. The two telesco
Posted by Astronomy Blog
Monday
Jun 04 2012
16:10 UTC
Not often I write two posts in one day, but here is an unexpected piece of news. It seems that the US National Reconnaisance Office have given two free telescopes to NASA. Its all explained at this NY Times article. They are as big as HST but have a wider field of view. They were
Posted by The e-Astronomer
