NASA Sets July 29 Briefing for Roman Telescope's Aug. 30 Launch
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Updated · NASA · Jul 21
NASA Sets July 29 Briefing for Roman Telescope's Aug. 30 Launch
3 articles · Updated · NASA · Jul 21
Summary
NASA will hold a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT on July 29 to outline the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission and provide a status update ahead of its Aug. 30 launch from Kennedy Space Center.
Four mission leaders — including the Astrophysics Division director and Roman project manager — will brief media, and NASA will stream the event live online.
Roman is designed to conduct deep, panoramic cosmic surveys, producing wide-field images intended to reveal large numbers of celestial objects and probe mysteries including invisible phenomena.
The observatory also carries a technology demonstration for direct imaging of planets around nearby stars, a step tied to NASA's broader search for life beyond Earth.
Managed by NASA Goddard, the mission also includes U.S. institutional partners, major industry contractors, and contributions from ESA, JAXA, CNES and Germany's Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.