NASA launches powerful new Roman Space Telescope from Florida
- NASA is preparing to launch the Roman Space Telescope on Sunday from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, embarking on a multi-year mission to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos.
- Developed over a decade at a cost of $4 billion, the observatory is named after pioneering U.S. astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, who became known as the "Mother of Hubble," another of NASA's flagship telescopes.
- With a field of view more than 100 times larger than Hubble's, the telescope will generate about 1.3 terabytes of data daily while using infrared vision to detect light from billions of years ago.
- Researchers aim to illuminate dark matter and dark energy, which together comprise about 95 per cent of the universe, using Roman's vantage point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
- Roman's observations will complement the European Space Agency's Euclid probe and the Rubin Observatory in Chile, as project scientist Julie McEnery noted that recent research suggests current expansion models may be wrong.
258 Articles
258 Articles
NASA Roman Space Telescope launches to hunt planets and explore dark energy
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has begun its journey into space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. With a field of view more than 100 times wider than Hubble, Roman will hunt for planets, study dark energy and survey billions of galaxies.
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope launched today, nine months ahead of its official deadline after surviving three cancellation proposals and a fourth major funding threat — the observatory that nearly didn’t exist is now bound for an orbit 1 million miles from Earth.
At 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 30, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rose from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Seven minutes later, controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center were receiving telemetry. At 7:57 a.m., 31 minutes after liftoff, the observatory separated from the rocket’s second stage and began flying on its own. That sequence turned Roman from a repeatedly threatened developm…
By Ashley Strickland, CNN - A massive observatory that scientists have dubbed a "discovery machine" has launched into space, beginning a journey that could significantly alter our understanding of the universe. Designed to search for faint, otherwise invisible objects in space, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The observato…
Designed to map the cosmos, the Roman Space Telescope will travel 1.5 million kilometres in a hundred days.
'It's going to give us a lot of fantastic data,' says the Danish astrophysicist.
The observatory was developed for more than a decade and required an investment of more than $4 billion. The mission will allow to study exoplanets, supernovas and phenomena linked to dark matter and energy.
Coverage Details
Bias Distribution
- 55% of the sources are Center
Factuality
To view factuality data please Upgrade to Premium
