NASA taps SpaceX to launch the telescope that could unlock new worlds
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NASA taps SpaceX to launch the telescope that could unlock new worlds
SpaceX is set to play a central role in one of NASA’s most anticipated science missions in years. The company’s Falcon Heavy rocket, currently the most powerful operational launch vehicle in the world, will carry the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit on August 30 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Roman is now in final preparations inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, where on June 26 technicians used a crane to lift th…
The telescope, which takes its name from Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first head of astronomy, arrived at the Kennedy Space Center port on June 21 and is preparing for its final tests before its launch period beginning on August 30th.
The Kennedy Space Center cranes raised the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope to their work platform on June 26, a maneuver that opens the final countdown. NASA completes the final tests of the Roman telescope, the jewel that will detect 100,000 exoplanets and map the cosmos to an unprecedented level starting on August 30, scheduled for launch. Since their arrival in Florida, technicians have verified that the observatory works perfectly after tr…
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