<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA#Potential_uses" rel="nofollow noreferrer">One of them has been used in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA does not have plans or funding for the usage of the second.</a></p>
<p>The Wikipedia article also states that</p>
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<p>the only prohibition is Earth observation, a condition of the NRO
donation</p>
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Dave Gremlin
<p>I stumbled onto <a href="https://newatlas.com/spysatellite/22813/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this news article</a> from 2012 discussing NRO (national reconnaissance office) giving its surplus unlaunched spy satellites over to NASA (with a lot of caveats)</p>
<p>It's been 11 years since that point, so I'm wondering if anything has been done with that.</p>
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<p>I remember there was a mission not <em>that</em> long ago that has been prohibited from looking at Earth to not reveal some spy optics quality - is that connected?</p>

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Did anything happen to "hubble-class" telescopes military gifted to NASA in 2012?
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# Did anything happen to "hubble-class" telescopes military gifted to NASA in 2012?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-11-04)

I stumbled onto [this news article](https://newatlas.com/spysatellite/22813/) from 2012 discussing NRO (national reconnaissance office) giving its surplus unlaunched spy satellites over to NASA (with a lot of caveats)

It's been 11 years since that point, so I'm wondering if anything has been done with that.

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I remember there was a mission not *that* long ago that has been prohibited from looking at Earth to not reveal some spy optics quality - is that connected?

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### Answer by username_1 on 2023-11-05. Score: 2

[One of them has been used in the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA does not have plans or funding for the usage of the second.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA#Potential_uses)

The Wikipedia article also states that

> the only prohibition is Earth observation, a condition of the NRO
> donation


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