[NASA] NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed

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Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

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at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations in summer 2026. Roman  — named after 

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, NASA’s first chief astronomer — is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.

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Image credit: NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya

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