Teams Complete Flight Readiness Review for NASA’s Roman Telescope

NASA Science reports that mission managers from NASA, the agency's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, and SpaceX completed a flight readiness review on Friday at Kennedy Space Center, certifying the mission ready for final launch preparations. The Roman telescope is targeting liftoff no earlier than seven twenty-six a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, August thirtieth, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A. In the coming days, teams will move the encapsulated observatory to the pad's hangar, attach it to the rocket, and roll it out to the launch pad. Roman, NASA's newest space telescope, aims to help researchers understand cosmic expansion and study exoplanets beyond our solar system.

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