NASA’s $5.3 billion Roman Telescope set to launch soon with a mission to study dark matter
- The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch in late August from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX rocket.
- The telescope has a 2.4-metre primary mirror and a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble. It aims to explore dark matter.
- NASA said science operations will begin after a 100-day deployment, with the mission expected to generate over 20 petabytes of data.
Source: brief.news
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