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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set for Aug. 30 launch on SpaceX Falcon Heavy

NASA says the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The observatory will travel nearly 1 million miles from Earth to reach the same orbital “sweet spot” as the James Webb Space Telescope, enabling wide-field science aimed at discoveries currently impossible from existing assets.

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Roman’s Aug. 30 Falcon Heavy launch date and its travel to nearly 1 million miles ahead of commissioning set the timing for the next major step in NASA’s space science capability.
Positioning Roman at the same orbital “sweet spot” used by James Webb Space Telescope links its mission architecture to JWST’s proven observing conditions.
The cluster signals how NASA is scaling its “next great observatory” roadmap with new instrumentation intended to deliver discovery types that aren’t currently achievable.

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