NASA’s Roman Telescope Set for Falcon Heavy Launch

NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope called Roman.

It will travel on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Florida.

The articles give different weekday descriptions for August 30, but both identify 7:26 a.m.

EDT as the planned launch time.

Rain, storms and certain clouds could delay the launch.

Roman will travel nearly one million miles away to a special location called L2.

From there, it can see a very large part of the sky.

Scientists will use it to study dark energy, dark matter and planets around other stars.

Roman can survey much more sky at once than Hubble.

It will spend about three months preparing before beginning its main science mission.