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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (shortened as the Roman Space Telescope, Roman, or RST) is a NASA infrared space telescope in development and scheduled to launch to a Sun–Earth L 2 orbit by May 2027. [5] It is named after former NASA Chief of Astronomy Nancy Grace Roman.
Nancy Grace Roman (May 16, 1925 – December 25, 2018) was an American astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s, establishing her as one of the "visionary founders of the US civilian space program".
The Nancy Grace Roman space telescope did not always go by such a lyrical name. When it was first proposed, in 2010, it went by a decidedly more arcane, if more descriptive moniker: the Wide Field ...
[2] [6] Observing in the infrared section of the electromagnetic spectrum, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be used to study the role of dark energy in the Universe, as well as to directly image Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets. [7] The NRO telescope design has several features which make it useful for Roman/WFIRST and superior to the ...
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: NASA: infrared: October 2026-May 2027: confirmed and named 2020: Sun-Earth L 2 Lagrange point [5] [6] ... Membrane Space Telescope ...
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, formerly named the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), employs a folded three-mirror anastigmat featuring an ellipsoidal primary, hyperboloidal secondary, and ellipsoidal tertiary. [11] An earlier design used an off-axis three-mirror anastigmat. [12]
Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) listen as U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the ...
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