Sunday, August 30, 2026
SpaceX launches NASA's Roman Space Telescope on Falcon Heavy
SpaceX launched NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at 7:26 a.m. EDT on August 30 aboard a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, following a Launch Readiness Review completed two days earlier. The observatory is headed to the Earth-Sun L2 Lagrange point, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, where it will join the James Webb Space Telescope and survey the sky in infrared with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble's to study dark energy and search for exoplanets.
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