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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch on Aug 30, 2026 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy to the Sun–Earth L2 point, using a 2.4-meter mirror with a sky-wide field of view about 100 times larger than Hubble’s to map dark energy across a billion galaxies and hunt for exoplanets via microlensing, with a coronagraph tech demonstrator to pave the way for direct imaging of distant worlds.
NASA has completed the final integration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next‑generation observatory designed to image vast swaths of the sky much faster than Hubble. With a 2.4‑meter mirror, a 300‑megapixel Wide Field Instrument and a coronagraph, Roman will survey areas hundreds of times larger, deliver hundreds of terabytes of data per year, and help illuminate dark matter and dark energy while enabling direct imaging of exoplanets. It is scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to the L2 point in September 2026, eight months ahead of schedule and under budget, joining JWST, Euclid, and Hubble as a major tool for cosmic exploration.