{"id":327875,"date":"2025-12-04T19:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327875\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:59:09","slug":"nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-completed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/327875\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54963276156-ab4f24f068-o.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/54963276156-ab4f24f068-o.jpg\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Two people in white jumpsuits look up at a large telescope with three black and orange panels facing them. They are in a large white cleanroom with equipment and scaffolding.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\/Jolearra Tshiteya<\/p>\n<p>Two technicians look up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/roman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/roman-space-telescope\/nasa-completes-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-construction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its inner and outer segments were connected<\/a> at the agency\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman\u2019s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations in summer 2026. Roman \u00a0\u2014 named after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/people\/nancy-roman\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Nancy Grace Roman<\/a>, NASA\u2019s first chief astronomer \u2014 is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasaroman\/albums\/72177720330735789\/with\/54963533254\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">See more photos of the completed observatory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA\/Jolearra Tshiteya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,30300,35326,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-327875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-goddard-space-flight-center","11":"tag-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}