NASA Completes Nancy Grace Roman's Space Telescope Rakit, Ready To Reveal Dark Energy Secrets

JAKARTA NASA announced an important achievement from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The space observatory was completed by technicians on November 25.

Now, Roman will enter the final testing phase before officially launching into space. Roman will be moved to the launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations.

Although the telescope is scheduled to launch in May 2027, NASA technicians have opened up the possibility of launches in the coming fall. The telescope will be moved to Florida in the summer of 2026.

Roman plans to take off using SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The telescope will be flown to an area about a million miles from Earth to unravel the biggest mystery of the cosmos.

Through this telescope, scientists will find out why the expansion of the universe seems to be moving faster. This telescope was specifically built to investigate dark matter and dark energy that has not been clearly understood.

In the first five years of its mission, Roman is expected to produce unexpected scientific findings on a large scale. The main task is to uncover more than 100,000 exoplanets passing by, as well as thousands of exoplanet planets microlensing.

In addition, Roman will observe hundreds of millions of stars, hundreds of black holes, and billions of unmeasured galaxies. The telescope will also study hundreds of planetary systems that are being formed.

Monitoring of the universe will be supported by the ability of Roman sensitivity to infrared light. This capability can support rapid in-depth research, unlike other telescopes that could take hundreds of years.