NASA and SpaceX will send a telescope into space using the Falcon Heavy rocket - the price of the contract is beyond reasonable

NASA and SpaceX will send the new Roman Space Telescope into space.

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The launch will take place in October 2026.It will be NASA's sixth large observatory in space, and it will outperform the James Webb telescope, which recently began transmitting images back to Earth, in some ways.

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will havea mirror with a width of 2.4 m. The field of view will be a hundred times greater than the field of view of the Hubble telescope (Hubble). The new development will allow you to take photos with a resolution of 288 megapixels thanks to a multispectral infrared camera created by Lockheed Martin.

The contract value is $255 million, whichraises many questions. For understanding, in 2024 Falcon Heavy will participate in the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter and in the launch of the GOES-U satellite. The total value of two similar contracts is approximately $330 million ($178 million and $152.5 million, respectively).

As for the Roman Space telescope itselfTelescope, it will follow the path of "James Webb" and will lead to the Lagrange point L2 at a distance of 1.5 million km from our planet. The telescope will search for dark energy and take direct photos of exoplanets. The cost of the entire project is $4.3 billion.

Source: Space News

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