A vital subsystem for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, and installed in the spacecraft’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI).
“Without this calibration tool, we wouldn’t be able to gather accurate enough measurements to achieve the next-level science Roman is designed to do,” said Joshua Schlieder, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Publisher: My Droll
Date: 2023-04-19T02:10:51 00:00
Author: Hank Wilczek
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