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NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will…

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Telescope for NASA’s Roman Mission Complete, Delivered to Goddard

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is one giant step closer to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. The mission has now received its final major delivery: the Optical Telescope Assembly, which includes a 7.9-foot (2.4-meter) primary mirror, nine additional…

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NASA Successfully Integrates Coronagraph for Roman Space Telescope

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully completed integration of the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto Roman’s Instrument Carrier, a piece of infrastructure that will hold the mission’s instruments, which will be integrated onto the larger spacecraft at a…

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope’s ‘Exoskeleton’ Whirls Through Major Test

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A major component of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope just took a spin on the centrifuge at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Called the Outer Barrel Assembly, this piece of the observatory is designed to keep…

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NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets

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Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite).  The system contains a set of twin stars orbiting…

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A collage of eight images and a text box that says “Space Crafts with NASA.” The top row from left to right shows marshmallows connected by toothpicks in the shape of the Orion constellation, a ball of swirled black and purple dough with some silver glitter in the black portions, a sparkly bluish goop, and a dark purple sucker with silver glitter. The bottom row from left to right shows three pastel colored misshapen balls on a pink plate (one of the balls is fizzing), a black sphere, a mason jar of purplish pink glitter, and a pinwheel with a space pattern.

Launch Your Creativity with These Space Crafts!

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In honor of the completion of our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft — the vehicle that will maneuver the observatory to its place in space and enable it to function once there — we’re bringing you some space crafts…

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NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope

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The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing. Now that the spacecraft is assembled, engineers will…

Article3 months ago

Aaron Vigil Helps Give SASS to Roman Space Telescope

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The stars in the big Wyoming skies inspired Aaron Vigil as a child to dream big. Today, he’s a mechanical engineer working on the Solar Array Sun Shield (SASS) for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at Goddard. Name: Aaron…

Article4 months ago

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope to Investigate Galactic Fossils

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The universe is a dynamic, ever-changing place where galaxies are dancing, merging together, and shifting appearance. Unfortunately, because these changes take millions or billions of years, telescopes can only provide snapshots, squeezed into a human lifetime. However, galaxies leave behind…

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Solar Panels for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Pass Key Tests

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Solar Array Sun Shield has successfully completed recent tests, signaling that the assembly is on track to be completed on schedule. The panels are designed to power and shade the observatory, enabling all the…

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