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NASARoman launched this week with Hubble's mirror size and two hundred times its infrared field of view. It is built for survey astronomy, which measures billions of objects instead of hundreds. Here is how it compares with Hubble, Webb and Rubin, and why it is going to L2.
SpaceXThe offering document leans on AI far more than on launch or Mars, and its lockup calendar sets the dates that will test the story.