NASA’s next big mission is a space telescope built and operated in Maryland

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In the not-too-distant future, NASA will launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket.

The next-generation telescope will be sent nearly a million miles from Earth, roughly four times farther than the moon’s orbit.

Once it’s in position, the truck-sized observatory will help scientists study dark matter, exoplanets and infrared astrophysics. It will have a field of view 100 times that of the Hubble, which was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990.

On the heels of the successful Artemis II mission that sent a four-person crew around the moon, and the worldwide enthusiasm it inspired, the planned September launch of the Roman Space Telescope is NASA’s next headline-grabbing mission.
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