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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center
Florida Today • • science
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- NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after traveling over 800 miles on the Pegasus barge from Goddard Space Flight Center.
- The telescope features a field of view 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope and will study dark energy, exoplanets, planet-forming disks, and potentially observe up to a billion galaxies.
- Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the telescope aims to address major scientific questions about dark matter, dark energy, and the structure of the universe with unprecedented large and detailed images.
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch as early as August 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, with the project completed eight months ahead of schedule and under budget.
