Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next ‘great observatory,’ poised for Sunday launch
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, built around a Hubble-class mirror originally made for a spy satellite, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The $4.3 billion mission carries a Wide-Field Instrument with a 300.8-megapixel camera offering a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's, plus a Coronagraphic Instrument for high-contrast imaging.
Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA's Roman Space Telescope is poised for launch Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe. Liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. EDT (1126 UTC).
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