NASA's New Space Telescope Launch

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1. 28 Aug

   The $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled for launch Aug. 30.

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• 31 Aug NASA's new space telescope will aid hunt for 'Earth twins' and seek the fate of the universeNASA's new space telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is set to launch Sunday morning atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and will aid in the search for "Earth twins" and help scientists understand the universe's fate. The $4.3-billion telescope has been developed by massive teams of engineers and scientists over a decade, with personnel from Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory contributing…Los Angeles Times
• 31 Aug NASA's Roman Space Telescope, set to probe universe with JPL tech, launches on SpaceX rocketNASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched into space Sunday morning on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:26 a.m. Pacific, marking the beginning of a $4.3-billion mission to explore the universe and identify thousands of new planets outside our solar system. The telescope is expected to increase the known number of exoplanets from around 6,300 to over 100,000 once…Los Angeles Times
• 28 Aug NASA set to launch next-generation telescope to unlock universe’s deepest mysteriesNASA plans to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 7:26 a.m. EDT. The mission aims to study dark matter and dark energy, map billions of galaxies, and examine black holes. The telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope and is designed to travel about one million…New York Post
• 28 Aug NASA is about to launch a space telescope that could change how we see the universeNASA is about to launch the $4.3-billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on August 30, which could change our understanding of the universe by discovering more exploding stars and multitudes of planets orbiting distant stars. The telescope has an unusual history, having been repurposed from a surveillance satellite that was previously used for downward-facing observations. Cosmologist Daniel Scolnic at Duke…NPR

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