NASA Nancy Grace Roman Telescope mission
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NASA's Roman Space Telescope to directly image exoplanets
NASA's PUNCH mission launched in 2025 and includes a coronagraph to study the sun's corona.
Roman's coronagraph can adjust its mirrors in real-time using hundreds of tiny pistons built into its mirrors.
Roman's coronagraph should be capable of detecting exoplanets about 100 million times fainter than their stars.
SpaceX rocket taxi returns after Roman Telescope launch
Falcon Heavy can lift nearly 141,000 pounds (64 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit.
One of the boosters carried out its first mission while the other was on its third.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on Aug. 30.
NASA begins commissioning of Roman Space Telescope
NASA chief Jared Isaacman said the Roman Space Telescope will potentially reveal more than 100,000 new exoplanets.
President Donald Trump called NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman during the post-launch press conference.
SpaceX launched the Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Rescue satellite approaches NASA's doomed telescope
Link went into an uncontrollable spin soon after launching toward Swift's rescue in July.
Flight controllers stabilized Link but used up too much fuel to boost Swift into a higher orbit.
The Roman Space Telescope was designed to be refueled and is headed toward an observation point 1 million miles away.
SpaceX scheduled to launch NASA's Roman Space Telescope
A backup launch window for the Roman Space Telescope is available on Monday, Aug. 31.
NASA's Roman Space Telescope is named after the late NASA astronomer Nancy Grace Roman.
The Roman Space Telescope will launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA and SpaceX Prepare Falcon Heavy for Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Launch
NASA transported the Roman space telescope inside its rocket fairing from the Kennedy Space Center's Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to SpaceX's hangar at Launch Complex-39A overnight on August 25.
Technicians loaded the Roman observatory with 290 gallons (1,100 liters) of hydrazine fuel on July 25.
The Roman Space Telescope separated from the Falcon Heavy upper stage at 7:57 a.m. EDT, 31 minutes after launch.
“We will do a survey of our own Milky Way galaxy and find 20 billion stars. That would make it the largest catalog of astronomical objects that's ever been produced.”
NASA Launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Aboard Falcon Heavy
The Roman Space Telescope has a primary mission lifespan of five years.
The observatory is named after physicist Nancy Grace Roman, who served as NASA's first chief astronomer.
The Roman Space Telescope has a field of view more than 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope.
“We will do a survey of our own Milky Way galaxy and find 20 billion stars. That would make it the largest catalog of astronomical objects that's ever been produced.”
NASA's Roman Space Telescope ready to launch after Trump's attempted cancellation
Congress rejected the steep cuts to NASA and restored funding to the previous year's levels.
NASA announced the Roman Space Telescope's completion in April 2026, eight months ahead of schedule and under budget.
Roman will travel to sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2, approximately 930,000 miles from Earth.
NASA readies Nancy Grace Roman Telescope for launch
Falcon Heavy's first stage consists of three modified, strapped-together Falcon 9 boosters.
The Roman Space Telescope will research dark energy, search for exoplanets, and investigate the physics of distant stars.
Technicians loaded the Roman observatory with 290 gallons of hydrazine fuel on July 25.