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• Monisha Ravisetti
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at SpaceX’s hangar at Launch Complex 39A ahead of its scheduled Aug. 30 launch. The mission is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets, establish a statistical census of planetary systems and survey the universe in ways Hubble and JWST cannot.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at SpaceX’s hangar at Launch Complex 39A ahead of its scheduled Aug. 30 launch. The mission is designed to discover thousands of exoplanets, establish a statistical census of planetary systems and survey the universe in ways Hubble and JWST cannot.
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is entering the final phase of launch preparations at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, following its June arrival. Teams have completed several integration and rehearsal milestones ahead of the scheduled Aug. 30 liftoff, bringing the observatory closer to operations designed to expand space-based astronomical research.
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