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The Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.

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The Roman Space Telescope launches August 30. Here is what it is going after.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is launching on August 30, 2026. That is eight months ahead of its previously planned date, which is a meaningful rescheduling for a mission that has been in development for over a decade. It will ride a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center to the Sun-Earth L2 point, around 1.5 million kilometres from Earth.

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