NASA’s Heat-Seeking Space Telescope Is Almost Ready to Spot Killer Asteroids
NASA’s NEO Surveyor, a spacecraft specifically designed to detect asteroids that could threaten Earth, is on track for a 2027 ...
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When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United ... During the Apollo missions, NRO spy satellites captured images of potential landing ...
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Apollo: The Alignment Optical Telescope
The Apollo program is a constant reminder that ... [Bill Hammack] elaborates on one such piece of engineering: The Alignment Optical Telescope. The telescope was used to find the position of ...