Roman Space Telescope Launch Moves Up to Aug. 30, Eight Months Ahead of Schedule
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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now slated to launch Aug. 30, eight months ahead of the previous target. The observatory is being prepared at Goddard, shipped to Kennedy Space Center for testing, then attached to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy for a journey to the L2 point. Over a five-year mission, it will survey billions of stars and galaxies, probe thousands of exoplanets, and study black holes, at a lifetime cost of about $4.3 billion.
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