In this June 21, 2026, photo,NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescopearrives at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboardNASA’s Pegasus barge.
After offloading and transportation to the spaceport’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Roman will undergo processing ahead of launch, targeted no earlier than Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.
Named forNASA’s first chief astronomerand “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 credit: NASA/Amber Jean Notvest