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Advocates hope an NRO-powered WFIRST mission could launch in the early 2020s .

该方法的拥护者希望在NRO的助力下，WFIRST能在21世纪20年代发射。

The European Space Agency plans to launch Euclid in 2019 and NASA hopes to put wfirst in orbit three years later .

欧洲太空局计划在2019年启动“欧几里德”项目，而美国航天航空局希望能在三年之后的2022年将wfirst望远镜送入轨道。

One idea is to use one of the mirrors for the WFIRST mission , an infra-red telescope designed to investigate dark energy-the still-mysterious force thought to be behind the accelerating expansion of the universe .

一个办法就是把其中一颗卫星用于广域红外线巡天望近镜（WFIRST）项目，红外线望远镜可以用来研究暗能量——这股神秘的力量被认为是宇宙膨胀的幕后推手。

Using a higher-resolution NRO mirror would boost the capabilities of WFIRST , says Alan Dressler , a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science . It could also cut the project 's cost ( its present price tag is about $ 1.6 billion ) and shorten its development time .

卡内基科学研究所的研究员AlanDressler说，运用NRO卫星的高分辨率望远镜可以提升WFIRST的能力，也可以降低该项目的花费（红外线望远镜的当前市价为16亿美元）并缩短研制时间。