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Primary Instrument for NASA’s Roman Completed, Begins Tests

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • September 13th, 2023

A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace, one of the industry partners for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished assembling the spacecraft’s giant camera.

NASA Begins Integrating ‘Nervous System’ for Roman Space Telescope

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • August 24th, 2023

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.

New Study Reveals NASA’s Roman Could Find 400 Earth-Mass Rogue Planets

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • July 19th, 2023

New research by scientists from NASA and Japan’s Osaka University suggests that rogue planets – worlds that drift through space untethered to a star – far outnumber planets that orbit stars.

NASA’s Roman and ESA’s Euclid Will Team Up To Investigate Dark Energy

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • June 27th, 2023

A new space telescope named Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) mission with important contributions from NASA, is set to launch in July to explore why the universe’s expansion is speeding up. Scientists call the unknown cause of this cosmic acceleration “dark energy.” By May 2027, NASA’s...

NASA Completes Heart of Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • May 16th, 2023

The heart of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, for integration into the WFI (Wide Field Instrument). Called the FPS (Focal Plane System), it serves as the core of Roman’s camera.

Framework for NASA’s Roman Spacecraft Moves to Goddard Clean Room

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • April 26th, 2023

The primary structure that will serve as the “bones” of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has moved into the big clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The spacecraft bus, Roman’s primary support element, will now be built upon this skeletal framework.

Goddard Team Builds, Tests Calibrator for NASA’s Roman in Record Time

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • April 19th, 2023

A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI). Called the Simplified Relative Calibration System (sRCS), this component will allow astronomers to measure...

Millions of Galaxies Emerge in New Simulated Images From NASA's Roman

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 8th, 2023

Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s future observations. Though it represents just a small chunk of the real future survey, this simulated version contains a staggering number of galaxies – 33 million of...

How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Rewind the Universe

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • March 1st, 2023

High-Gain Antenna for NASA’s Roman Mission Clears Environmental Tests

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope • Project News • February 6th, 2023

Engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have finished testing the high-gain antenna for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. When it launches by May 2027, this NASA observatory will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image...