The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope that was launched on a trajectory toward a Sun–Earth L2 orbit on 30 August 2026 by a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. It is named a
Roman's Wide Field Instrument focal plane Engineering Test Unit with 18 non-flight H4RG-10 detectors
Optical Telescope Assembly
Coronagraph Instrument's color filter assembly
Coronagraph Instrument focal plane mask
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Nancy Grace Roman was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first chief of a
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
…on a trajectory toward a Sun–Earth L2 orbit on 30 August 2026 by a Falcon Heavy launch vehicle. It is named after NASA's first chief of astronomy; Nancy Grace Roman. The Roman Space Telescope is based on an existing 2.4-meter (7.9-foot) primary mirror with a wide field of view that was donated by the National…
Nancy Grace Roman in 1969
Roman at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, around 1972
Nancy Grace Roman in her NASA office in the 1960s
Roman with a model of the Orbiting Solar Observatory in 1962