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Let's not forget that NRO donated multiple Hubble level satellites. NASA had no budget to utilize them, so they were not used. Of course there were other logistics involved that made the "gifts" not so practical. However, the thing that gets me is that if the NRO was willing to donate these satellites tells me that they have better than Hubble quality imaging looking inwards and absolutely have multiple of them.



The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one of them. They still had to change the optics for astronomical purposes.



I guess you can say "using right now", but from your link:

"October 2026 (contracted) – May 2027 (commitment)"

So more like, in the works to use one of them. It does appear that it is beyond the planning to use stage. I did not see the word Boeing once in that link, so maybe they have an actual shot of hitting those dates.




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