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NASA targets a September launch for its next big space telescope

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NASA's next eye into the cosmos is due to leave our planet later this year. The agency says it's targeting an early September launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Roman (for short) has a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble's.The September date is the earliest possible launch for Roman. NASA says it will go up (aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket) no later than May 2027.The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after NASA's first chief astronomer and "mother" of Hubble, was

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