NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches Aug. 30 and is probably the space-thing I’ve been most excited about since the deployment of the JWST. Build from a leftover reconnaissance telescope (like Hubble was), Roman is designed to make catalogs of large swaths of the sky, find new planets (including in very bright areas like the center of our own galaxy), and study supernovae and their remnants.
I wonder if we’ll finally discover intelligent life on Earth
Don’t get your hopes up
Well unlike the probably dozen or so nearly identical telescope already in space, this one will actually be pointed up.
It kills me how there’s always money to spend on “defence”, but the moment you want to point one of those sit satellites up… well that’s not in the budget.