'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch

'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch

NASA engineers completed their final inspection of the Roman telescope's primary mirror and are now preparing to ship the telescope to its Florida launch site.

NASA to launch Roman Space Telescope on 30 August

New Delhi: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is officially scheduled for launch on 30 August, eight months ahead of schedule. The observatory will travel to the second Langrange Point (L2) in the Sun-Earth system, located about 1.5 million km from the Earth. The primary mission duration of the instrument is five years, over which time the spacecraft will study a wide range of cosmic phenomena. Roman is currently at the Goddard Space Fligh…

NASA Sets Launch Date for Roman Space Telescope

NASA is moving up the launch date for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.  In April, the agency said it would lift off in early September, but NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has been hinting ever since that it might be in August. Today, it’s official — Roman is scheduled to launch on August 30. The news came from Joel Montalbano at a joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, both part of the Nati…