30 August 2026 year Fr. 11:25 (UTC) from the Space Center named after. Kennedy, Florida, USA, using a launch vehicle «Falcon Heavy» the telescope was launched «Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope».
«Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope» – a new generation space telescope has been developed NASA, intended primarily for dark energy research, dark matter and exoplanets, as well as the evolution of galaxies, black holes and the structure of the universe.
The telescope is equipped with a main mirror with a diameter of 2,4 city, similar in size to a mirror Hubble. The main scientific device is an infrared camera on 300 megapixel Wide Field Instrument (WFI). Her field of vision is at least 100 times more than Hubble, which will allow obtaining large-scale images and conducting surveys of the universe much faster.
The telescope will operate near the second Lagrangian point L2 of the Sun-Earth system, about for 1,5 million km from Earth.
The main period of scientific work of the space telescope will be 5 years, with NASA aims to extend it to 10 years.
According to the CCS