The CIA would!<p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/28/1016867/lunik-cia-heist-steal-russian-satellite-space-us-ussr/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/28/1016867/lunik-ci...</a> (<i>"Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite"</i>)<p><a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-age-spy-story" rel="nofollow">https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-...</a> (<i>"Lunik on Loan: A Space Age Spy Story"</i>)
Well, kidnap as it travels over international waters, so, well, that's not exciting, the title can just be "Who Would Kidnap Precious Cargo?" (answer: sea pirates).<p>I thought it'd be about a telescope already in space, and how some entity managed to send signals to it to move it (from the HTML title as it currently is on my browser: The World's Most Powerful Space Telescope Is Moving). I was wondering what they'd do with it and how they'd hide it. And also why.<p>Thinking about it, obviously radio comms to (and probably from) the satellite is encryped, I wonder if the Bad Guys could hack into the ground station and steal the encryption key...
> Webb, with a mirror as tall as a two-story building and a protective shield the size of a tennis court<p>What kind of launch vehicle are they going to be using for that?
Anyone want that other side of a bet that the Webb telescope will not be doing any science in 2022? Even if it launches, it will be a miracle if it works. They are using so many brand new technologies on a spacecraft operating 3X farther away than the moon.