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NASA Unveils Panoramic Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The observatory will map galaxies, supernovas and exoplanets with a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's, NASA said.
- On Tuesday, NASA unveiled the fully integrated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, with plans to ship it to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch as early as fall 2026.
- Named for NASA's first chief of astronomy, the project is eight months ahead of schedule and designed to work alongside the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble to observe the cosmos.
- The telescope's wide-field instrument can chart 200 times more sky in a single image than Hubble, prompting NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman to state, "Roman will give the Earth a new Atlas of the universe."
- Researchers will study dark matter, dark energy, and exoplanets using the Roman Coronagraph, which can detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, advancing fundamental cosmic understanding.
- Once operational, the telescope will travel to Lagrange Point 2, approximately 1 million miles from Earth, to conduct a years-long campaign of deep space imaging and map the universe's structure.
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The takeoff scheduled for September from Cape Canaveral's Kennedy Space Center, aboard a Falcon Heavy SpaceX rocket
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NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope
NASA's next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it's targeting an early September launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman (for short) has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.The September date is the earliest possible launch for Roman. NASA says it will go up (aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket) no later than May 2027.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA's…
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