Teams Complete Flight Readiness Review for NASA’s Roman Telescope
Mission managers from NASA, the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and SpaceX conducted a Flight Readiness Review Friday, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Teams provided updates and reviewed the mission’s status before certifying that the mission is ready to begin final launch preparation activities. NASA and SpaceX are targeting Roman’s launch no earlier than 7:26 a.m. EDT Sunday, Aug. 30, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy.
In the coming days, teams will transport the Roman observatory, encapsulated in Falcon Heavy’s fairing, to SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A, where technicians will attach it to the rocket before sending it out to the launch pad.
Roman, NASA’s newest space telescope, will change the way we see the universe and settle essential questions in astronomy, helping researchers understand how the universe has changed over time, what drives its expansion, and the worlds that exist beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.
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