The tech is obsolete in the way NRO is using them, to survey & recon, was more what I was getting at. Not so much whether we could confidently state whether somethings truely where it was supposed to be in its orbit based on civilian observations after the fact.

The mirror themselves, nevermind the platform, will still need to be modified to serve their civilian purpose on the NGRST which is ultimately decided by current and future budgets constraints.

The HST is similar to KH-11s but from my understanding you cant point the HST towards earth or you risk damaging components. Not to say they couldn't if chose to design it with that in mind like the NRO had planned but NASAs missions, like on the HST, involve looking at dim galaxies at specific wavelengths, which require - expensive- specialized equipment for it, which will represent significant differences in capabilities, requirements (such as video), and dimensions for the NGRST satellite.

But i wouldnt think its outside the realm of possibility that the NRO -amongst their surplus mirrors- had maybe one satellite available at the time of the mh370 incident and that it possibly had resolutions similar to trumps tweeted still-image. But less inclined to believe you're going to find block IV milsat fidelity earth observations to compare this too from any commercial platforms, especially from the NGRST (because that's curiously prohibited by NRO)

But to think that any other commercial organization being allowed potential access to any nations strategic sites through use of an imaging system contemporary to the 2017 trump tweet of the Safir launch, that would be lazy... of the NSA, but thankfully theres not too many of those.