GoKawiilSpaceX Falcon Heavy to Launch NASA's Roman Space Telescope
SpaceX is set to launch NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket, with a launch window opening at 7:26 a.m. EDT. The telescope will settle nearly 1 million miles from Earth, using a 300-megapixel infrared camera and a coronagraph to map dark matter and search for Earth-like exoplanets, with all data made publicly available.
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Roman is expected to capture more sky in five years than Hubble did in three decades, giving researchers worldwide a vastly larger dataset to probe dark energy and dark matter at a moment when cosmologists are questioning the standard cosmological model. Its coronagraph also serves as a technology testbed for future missions aimed at directly imaging habitable exoplanets.
- Falcon Heavy launch window opens at 7:26 a.m. EDT, streamed live by NASA
- Roman will survey over 50 times more sky than Hubble did in 30 years
- Its coronagraph tests tech for detecting Earth-like planets around other stars
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