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NASA Launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to Solve Universe Secrets
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News18•16-10-2026, 14:15
NASA Launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to Solve Universe Secrets
- •The NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched on August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
- •Named after Nancy Grace Roman, known as the Mother of Hubble, the telescope features a 2.4-metre primary mirror matching Hubble's size.
- •The telescope boasts a wide field of view, capturing sky areas at least 100 times larger than Hubble while maintaining sharp image quality.
- •It is designed to investigate dark matter, dark energy, and discover exoplanets using gravitational microlensing and a specialized coronagraph.
- •Operating near the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point at L2, the primary mission is planned to last five years to map the universe and study galaxy evolution.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope successfully launched on August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
While Roman features a primary mirror measuring 2.4 metres in diameter—the same size as Hubble's—its main camera is designed to capture an area of the sky at least 100 times larger than Hubble's in a single image while maintaining comparable sharpness.
Roman will collect data to investigate dark matter and dark energy, search for exoplanets using gravitational microlensing, and study billions of cosmic objects across wide areas of the sky.
