If you put something like this in space, and pointed it down, would it be a useful espionage tool (more useful than the spy satellites the US and its allies already have)?
Another fun bit of trivia is that at one time the NRO (folks who operate the spy satellites) offered two they had in storage to NASA.
So in general I'd say it's a safe bet most of this technology is dual use. It's likely the secret squirrel folks are ahead of what open science projects can use however, given the resources available.
I suspect at this kind of resolution bandwidth getting the images down from space might be a big limitation.