NASA's Roman Space Telescope Lifts Off on Falcon Heavy for Survey of Two Billion Galaxies
August 30, 2026
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched Sunday, August 30, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The $4.3 billion observatory is bound for a point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where it will begin a five to ten year science mission mapping more than two billion galaxies and probing the nature of dark energy and dark matter. Roman is NASA's next flagship observatory after the James Webb Space Telescope, and its arrival at the launch pad foll