NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Launch Broadcast Begins

NASA Science reports the live broadcast has begun for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Liftoff aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy is targeted for seven twenty-six a.m. Eastern from Kennedy Space Center, with weather odds at seventy percent go. The telescope will head to a point about one million miles from Earth, where it will spend roughly three months commissioning before studying dark energy, dark matter, and planetary systems.

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