{
  "id": 4471515,
  "title": "NASA's groundbreaking Roman Space Telescope launches into space",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/30/nasas-groundbreaking-roman-space-telescope-launches-into-space",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-30T17:40:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBS News",
    "slug": "cbs-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nasa-groundbreaking-roman-space-telescope-launches-into-space/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}