NASA's groundbreaking Roman Space Telescope launches into space
Using a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite, NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday on a $4.3 billion mission to open a new window on the universe, taking wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a $4.3 billion NASA mission, has launched into space. According to CBS News, the telescope uses a donated Hubble-class mirror originally built for a spy satellite. It will take wide-angle, ultra-sharp images that would require a half million 4K TVs to show in full.
The Roman Space Telescope, standing over 12 metres tall, launched from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, as reported by the New Straits Times. The telescope is designed to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos and shed light on some of the biggest mysteries in physics, including dark matter and dark energy. It has a field of view more than 100 times larger than Hubble's.
The telescope will conduct a survey of the universe from a vantage point 1.5 million kilometres away, according to the New Straits Times. It will also study planets beyond our solar system using ultra-sensitive camera electronics, as reported by the Financial Post. The telescope will make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point beyond the Moon, where it will survey the sky 1,000 times faster than Hubble using its 300-megapixel infrared camera, The Verge reported.
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