NASA’s Roman telescope launches on Sunday August 30 with the same size mirror as Hubble, but it takes in roughly 100 times more sky at once — and it is arriving eight months ahead of its committed date
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Two telescopes share the same 2.4-meter mirror, yet one of them can photograph a patch of sky a hundred times wider in a single shot. That gap separates the Hubble Space Telescope from NASA’s newest flagship, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Roman is set to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center. The point of Roman is not to see fainter or farther than Hubble. It is to see wide.
It is named after Nancy Grace Roman,
Roman is set to lift off at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center. The point of Roman is not to see fainter or farther than Hubble. It is to see wide.
It is named after Nancy Grace Roman,
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