Eight months early and under budget, the Roman Telescope is ready to launch
Summary
NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and it will launch in September, eight months early and under budget. The telescope has a wide view and powerful imaging tools that will send back large amounts of data to help study space, especially in infrared light.Key Facts
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST) is ready for launch in September.
- It was completed eight months earlier than planned and stayed under budget.
- The telescope has a wide-field view about 100 times bigger than Hubble’s.
- It will send back about 1.4 terabytes of data to Earth every day.
- NGRST uses hardware from two surplus spy satellites offered by the National Reconnaissance Office.
- The telescope will study the universe in infrared light, which is hard to observe from Earth.
- It has 18 detectors, each capturing very high-resolution images.
- A filter system allows it to study different wavelengths of light and perform spectroscopy to analyze light from celestial objects.
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