NASA launches $4.3B Roman

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is finally in space after a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center, putting a $4.3 billion flagship observatory on course to hunt dark energy, map wide areas of the sky and look for “the weird, the rare and the unusual.” The mission matters because Roman is designed as a wide-field complement to Hubble and Webb: rather than lingering on narrow targets, it can survey cosmic structure at scale. For SpaceX, another high-profile NASA science payload reinforces Falcon Heavy’s role as the U.S. government’s heavy-lift workhorse beyond crew and cargo missions.

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