Daniel Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/06/nasa-gets-two-unneeded-hubble-sized-spy-telescopes/ >
This article does not anything like what you said: "The quality of the instruments is way inferior (perhaps even the mirrors has inferior polishing quality given that you don't need so much quality when looking at a turbulent atmosphere) . . ." It says: ". . . Compared to the Hubble, they would give you 'about [a] 100 times bigger area that you can image well.' After NASA's internal analysis, a good match was found between these capabilities and an existing project, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, or WFIRST. " It says nothing about inferior quality or inferior polishing. - Jed
