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‍The telescope will travel to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, which is ~one million miles away and about four times farther from Earth than the Moon. At L2, the combined gravity of the Sun and Earth will give Roman a stable vantage point with a clear, unobstructed view to survey deep space and accomplish its mission
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Deployment of Roman confirmed
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Falcon Heavy’s side boosters landed on LZ-2 and LZ-40
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‍This was the first and third flight for the two side boosters, which previously supported the launch of the GOES-U and Viasat-3 F3 missions
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Side booster separation confirmed
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Falcon Heavy lifts off from pad 39A in Florida for the 13th time!
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Propellant load of Falcon Heavy is underway
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Falcon Heavy sent Psyche toward a metal-rich asteroid, Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s Moon, and GOES-U into transfer orbit to improve NOAA’s weather forecasting. Falcon 9 launched NASA’s PACE mission to study Earth’s ocean and atmosphere and SPHEREx to map the history of the universe. The Falcon family has enabled NASA to reach farther and explore more of the universe, and missions like Roman continue that work
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‍Roman’s wide-field, high-speed surveys will map galaxies, find new exoplanets, and deliver volumes of daily data for astronomers to study
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‍Watch Falcon Heavy launch NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Less than two hours until today’s Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from pad 39A in Florida. Liftoff is targeted for 7:26 a.m. ET, and weather is 50% favorable → spacex.com/launches/roman
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🚀 Roman Launch: What you need to know

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics.

Named after NASA’s first chief astronomer, the ‘mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,’ the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will have a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble's, potentially measuring light from a billion galaxies in its lifetime. This observatory will also be able to block starlight to directly see exoplanets and planet-forming disks, complete a statistical census of planetary systems in our galaxy, and settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.

🎯 NASA and SpaceX are targeting a 11:26 UTC liftoff on Sunday, Aug. 30.
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Booster 21 making its way back to the SpaceX production site after a successful static fire test yesterday
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Falcon Heavy is vertical at pad 39A in Florida ahead of Sunday’s launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, designed to study dark energy, exoplanets, and astrophysics → spacex.com/launches/roman
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