Nancy Grace Roman Telescope: Born to Be a Spy, Forced to Observe Space — and Make a List
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Darko Donevski, an astrophysicist from Vršac, whose team is involved in the Nancy Grace Roman telescope project, speaks for the BBC in Serbian.
A mirror the size of that used by Hubble, built for a U.S. reconnaissance satellite that never came into space, became the...
The $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope was built around a mirror the U.S. intelligence community no longer needed — a Hubble-sized spy-satellite optic that had been sitting unused in storage until NASA realised it could transform its next great observatory.
Roman launched with a Hubble-sized primary mirror inherited from the U.S. intelligence community. The hardware gave NASA a head start, but transforming it into a $4.316 billion infrared observatory took far more than pointing a spare spy telescope toward deep space.
The most anticipated telescope of the year began its career with an unusual curriculum: it was intended for espionage, not astronomy. Built
The most modern space telescopes are so powerful that they can see into the past
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