Scientific American<\/a>, serait donc rest\u00e9 dans les limbes, sans cette offre inattendue.<\/p>\nOn ne sait pas grand-chose des activit\u00e9s \u00abspatiales\u00bb de ce National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), sinon qu\u2019il existait d\u00e9j\u00e0 chez lui, dans les ann\u00e9es 1990, un programme de satellites-espions appel\u00e9 Future Imagery Architecture, et qu\u2019il avait b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 d\u2019un afflux massif d\u2019argent dans la foul\u00e9e des attentats du 11 septembre 2001, \u00e0 New York.<\/p>\n
Des enqu\u00eates journalistiques ont par la suite r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 que la compagnie Boeing avait \u00e9t\u00e9 le principal b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaire, que le programme avait subi des retards et une explosion des co\u00fbts (18 milliards $ plut\u00f4t que 5 milliards $), au point o\u00f9 il avait \u00e9t\u00e9 interrompu en 2005 \u2014 mais pas avant que l\u2019agence ne se retrouve avec non pas un, mais deux t\u00e9lescopes spatiaux \u00e0 moiti\u00e9 construits.<\/p>\n
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Le t\u00e9lescope James-Webb. Illustration: Agence spatiale canadienne
\nLa Terre dans le d\u00e9tail<\/p>\n
Le Scientific American ajoutait dans un reportage publi\u00e9 le mois dernier qu\u2019avec un miroir principal de la taille de celui de Hubble, un tel t\u00e9lescope braqu\u00e9 sur la Terre plut\u00f4t que vers les \u00e9toiles, pourrait voir des objets aussi petits qu\u2019une tasse \u00e0 caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le t\u00e9lescope Hubble en orbite. Photo: NASA Satellites-espions \u00c0 ce moment, le gros projet de t\u00e9lescope spatial de…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[70],"tags":[12,13,18,17,8469,1918,8838,73,71,75,72,76,74,10444,68553],"class_list":["post-240297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sciences-et-technologies","tag-be","tag-be-fr","tag-belgique","tag-belgium","tag-cosmologie","tag-espace","tag-exoplanetes","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-et-technologies","tag-technologies","tag-technology","tag-telescope","tag-telescope-spatial-roman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be_fr\/117218504149780666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Le t\u00e9lescope Hubble en orbite. Photo: NASA