Hello, as far as I know : the Hubble telescope is not exactly a kind of any spying equipment for good reasons, the device is equipped with 2 '386' pcs , it is good at doing one job which is to take astronomical photographs at high precision, it has some special filters and many things aimed at astronomical photography. The computing power of the thing is just enough to process images in a very precise way aimed at specific tasks only, this is not James Bond or Star Trek, it takes a lot of preparation. In other words, what such a small device can do apart from taking photos ?, it has no weapons of any kind. Those machines are placed into orbit with everything that comes with it and it is prepared years in advance. At the time , it was considered even funny that the incredible Hubble telescope only runs on very ordinary computers. But, for the ones that do not know what kind of devices are sent into space : these are industrial strenght computers, they need heavy shielding, they need to be solid and reliable, these are not the same ones we used to have at home at all, the level is really not the same. In order to prepare and test and pass all the stress tests, these devices have to be resistant to all sorts of rays, temperatures, etc. Even today, the same applies, you just can't place into orbit a thing which is good enough for the house into space, this is not the same thing at all. This takes months and years to put in place properly. this is my opinion, Simon Plouffe