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UpcomingTelescope
Nancy Grace Roman
NASA · Launch: Late 2026 – May 2027 (target)
Wide-field infrared telescope with a field of view 100× Hubble's, built to survey dark energy and exoplanets.
Objective: Map billions of galaxies and detect thousands of exoplanets via microlensing.
Launch on Falcon Heavy
Early 2027
Target date · may change
Mission details
- Rocket & spacecraft
- Falcon Heavy
- Destination
- Sun–Earth L2 point
- Duration
- 5 years nominal
- 2.4 m mirror — same size as Hubble, but a 100× wider view.
- Expected to find thousands of exoplanets by microlensing.
- Carries a coronagraph to image planets directly.
Milestones
1 of 3 reachedObservatory fully assembled
2025
Launch
By May 2027Provisional
Survey operations
2027Provisional
Future dates are agency targets, not confirmed schedules.
Curated dataset
Official source: NASA Roman →