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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope pictured on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, after engineers and technicians working inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida had carefully mated the observatory to its payload adapter and a strut payl...
- Date
- Aug 21, 2026
- Mission
- Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
- Archive ID
- KSC-20260807-PH-JMT01_0001
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope pictured on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026, after engineers and technicians working inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida had carefully mated the observatory to its payload adapter and a strut payload attach fitting, a specialized piece of hardware designed for large, heavy loads. This allows the team to secure the payload to the second stage on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” Roman will offer a field of view over 100 times larger than Hubble’s to study up to a billion galaxies, directly image exoplanets and planet‑forming disks, and address fundamental questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.
Image Details
| Date | 2026-08-07 |
| Photographer | NASA/Jolearra Tshiteya |
| Center | KSC |
| Location | Payload Hazardous Servicing Faci |
| NASA ID | KSC-20260807-PH-JMT01_0001 |
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