NASA will launch the $4.3 bln Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday aboard
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, scheduled for 7:26 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The 5–10 year mission will be placed on a trajectory to an orbit about 1 million
miles from Earth and could begin sky surveys as early as December. The telescope
is designed to map how dark matter and dark energy affect distant stars and
galaxies and to probe cosmic expansion.
