LMSC also does a lot of pioneering work in weather satellites, and they launch weather satellites because it turns out that most of Russia is under cloud cover most of the time. They're part of the positioning satellites that the military puts up and that goes on to be opened up to commercial use. LMSC gets a contract from NASA and builds the Hubble telescope. Did you know that? It very well could have been because it was 1995 when that was declassified. And I'm sure Keyhole was started after that.

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