Roman Space Telescope Emerges in Space After Falcon Heavy Launch
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched Aug. 30, 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, successfully separated from the rocket and began autonomous deployment about 31 minutes after liftoff, entering a 90-day commissioning period on the way to sun-Earth L2 to study dark matter, dark energy and exoplanets.
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- NASA’s next “great observatory” begins mission to widen our view of the Universe Ars Technica
- NASA’s newest space telescope launches to spot ‘the weird, the rare and the unusual’ CNN
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