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Originally Posted by glatt
BUt then I later learned they were sitting in a warehouse and were just expensive paperweights.
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They do not sit in warehouses. And are not the only 'defense' birds in similar storage. Many duplicates of so many defense satellites sit in secure clean rooms.
A difference from Hubble: its lens has a wider aperture.
Even flying is a 'secret' robotic version of the space shuttle. Unknown is how many of those are sitting is storage.