Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off After Budget Battle
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NASA's $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch from Kennedy Space Center after surviving White House budget cuts; the infrared observatory will map vast swaths of the sky, image exoplanets with a coronagraph, and operate near the L2 point about a million miles from Earth to augment Hubble and Webb. First images are expected in early 2027, with a five-year primary mission (potentially extendable to ten), and the launch uses SpaceX's Falcon Heavy in its final flight.
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