NASA’s newest space telescope launches on a quest to explore the hidden universe
Summary
NASA launched the new Roman Space Telescope using a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to study planets, dark energy, and the universe in new ways. The telescope will travel to a point 1 million miles from Earth, where it will observe more stars, galaxies, and planets than ever before with a much wider view than previous telescopes.Key Facts
- The Roman Space Telescope cost $4.3 billion to build and launch.
- It launched on August 30, 2026, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- The Falcon Heavy rocket used for launch has three boosters; two side boosters landed safely back on Earth.
- The telescope will take over three months to reach its final observation location near the Webb Space Telescope.
- Roman’s field of view is more than 100 times wider than NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
- It is designed to find thousands of exploding stars (supernovae), tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies, and tens of billions of stars.
- Roman will work together with the Webb Space Telescope, the European Space Agency’s Euclid spacecraft, and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile to study the universe.
- The telescope was named after Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer.
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