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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Also known as Roman

NASA · Launched

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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is undergoing commissioning on its three-month journey from Earth to Sun-Earth L2 for dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.

Destinations

No celestial-body destination recorded; this extended-scope observatory studies a non-body scientific domain.

Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
Launch site
Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Countries
United States
Mission types
Observatory

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched

    NASA's launch page reports 7:26 a.m. EDT (UTC−4). JPL Horizons target -211 specifies 11:26:04 UTC.

    Earth

  2. Milestone

    Roman separated from the Falcon Heavy second stage

    NASA reports separation at 7:57 a.m. EDT (UTC−4), converted to 11:57 UTC.

    Earth

  3. Milestone

    Roman performed its first mid-course correction burn

    NASA reports the burn began at 12:02 p.m. EDT (UTC−4) and lasted about 3 minutes. No burn vector is stated in the source.

  4. Deployment

    Roman high-gain antenna deployment completed

    NASA reports deployment concluded at 2:03 p.m. EDT (UTC−4), after about 4 minutes; stored time is the reported completion minute.

  5. Deployment

    Roman deployable aperture cover deployment completed

    NASA reports successful completion at 6:05 a.m. EDT (UTC−4), after about 8 minutes; stored time is the reported completion minute.

  6. Milestone

    Roman’s coronagraph made its first observation of cosmic light

    NASA reports the coronagraph opened its eyes to cosmic light for the first time on Sept. 22; no time of day is stated.

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope · Spacecraft

Trajectory record

Time-dependent navigation trajectory

Source states place the model at the selected time. Reconstructed flight, estimates, predictions and historical mission plans are identified by interval; gaps remain visible.

J2000 · Sun-centered display · positions interpolated between source states

Coverage: August 30, 2026 to October 26, 2026

Source records and sampling assumptions are retained with the repository data. Model attitude and surface appearance are illustrative.

  • Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Predicted · August 30, 2026 to October 26, 2026

Provenance

Sources

Each source is listed once and labeled with the mission, event, trajectory, or destination/body context it supports.

Data verified through October 12, 2026