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space12 days ago•163 min saved

Roman Space Telescope sets course for L2 to unlock exoplanets and dark-energy mysteries

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on Aug. 30 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy and will travel to the sun–Earth L2 point, where its instruments will be commissioned before science begins in early 2027. After a roughly 30‑day transit, Roman will settle into a large looping orbit at L2, enabling the Wide Field Instrument to map the cosmos and the Coronagraph Instrument to directly image exoplanets. The five-year primary mission aims to discover thousands of exoplanets and probe dark energy and dark matter, with the potential for extensions and collaboration alongside JWST’s work, rather than overlap.

via Space|

#coronagraph-instrument #exoplanets #lagrange-point-2

science15 days ago•4 min saved

Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off After Budget Battle

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.

via The Guardian|

#coronagraph #exoplanets #lagrange-point-2

space1 month ago•131 min saved

NASA primes the Roman Space Telescope for a late-summer liftoff

NASA has fueled the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for its Aug. 30 liftoff aboard SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, nine months ahead of schedule and under budget. The hydrazine-fueled observatory is expected to generate over 500 terabytes of data per year and features a Wide Field Instrument that can image the infrared sky 50 times wider than JWST, enabling studies of dark matter, dark energy, and thousands of supernovae while guiding JWST's future targets. Roman will reach and operate at the L2 point powered by its propellant.

via Space|

#infrared-astronomy #lagrange-point-2 #nasa

space2 months ago•4 min saved

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope lands at Cape for final launch prep

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrived at Kennedy Space Center aboard the Pegasus barge for a ~70‑day prelaunch campaign at the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility ahead of an Aug. 30 launch from Launch Complex 39A on a Falcon Heavy. The 43‑foot observatory, designed to operate at L2 about 1.5 million km from Earth with a 300‑megapixel Wide Field Instrument and a chronograph for exoplanets, will survey the universe far faster and wider than Hubble and is expected to last 5–10+ years with propellant after a cooling hiccup en route.

via Spaceflight Now|

#hubble #lagrange-point-2 #nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope

space3 years ago•2 min saved

"SpaceX to Launch Euclid Telescope for ESA from Florida's Space Coast"

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope on July 1st from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The telescope will be used to create a 3D map of the universe, using time as the 3rd dimension, and will collect data in both visible and infrared light seeing as far back as 10 billion light-years. Euclid will be launched 1.5 million km from Earth to Lagrange Point 2, where it will use its thrusters to maintain a stable platform for capturing images.

via TESLARATI|

#3d-map-of-the-universe #euclid-space-telescope #european-space-agency