Roman Mission Passes Milestone Design Review
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- Engineering development unit for Roman’s Solar Array Sun Shield in testing chamber: NASA/Chris Gunn
- Roman Space Telescope illustration: NASA/GSFC
- Roman Space Telescope animations: NASA/GSFC
Writer: Leah Ramsay
Designer: Leah Hustak,
Science review: Dr. Quyen Hart
Education review: Jim Manning
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A grid of photographs of celestial bodies moves up.
Text, News from the universe. Text above an image of a planet.
Text, September 30, 2021. Roman Mission passes milestone design review
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has officially completed its design and developmental engineering work. A photo of the telescope inside a round space.
Text, Engineers and astronomers now have a full picture of the observatory's structure and capabilities.
Roman will match the Hubble Space Telescope's sharp infrared image resolution, with a field of view 200 times larger. A model of the telescope in space.
Text, The survey mission expects to reveal many new rocky exoplanets, and will shed light on the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter. The model rotates in space.
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Text, Roman now moves on to assembling and testing the telescope's hardware, and is planned for launch in the mid-2020s. The flat panels of a model. The model rotates upward.
Text, This news was brought to you in part by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.