NASA Targets Early September for Roman Space Telescope Launch

https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasa-targets-early-september-for-roman-space-telescope-launch/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nn202616 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team is targeting early September 2026 for launch, ahead of the agency’s commitment to flight no later than May 2027. By the end of its five-year primary mission, Roman is expected to amass a 20,000-terabyte data archive. Scientists can draw on it to identify and study 100,000 exoplanets, hundreds of thousands of galaxies, billions of stars, and rare objects and phenomena — including some that astronomers have never witnessed before.