Brendan Byrne
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 31 Aug
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NASA's Jackie Townsend said it went exactly as planned.
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Just hours after liftoff, the spacecraft began opening its solar panels and other instruments and is performing as expected.
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It will take Roman about three months to get to its final destination in space, with the first observations coming before the end of the year.
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It's also expected to identify over 100,000 planets orbiting other stars.
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For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne.
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on the hunt for dark matter, dark energy, and planets outside our own solar system.
Astronomers believe dark matter is the glue that holds galaxies together, and dark energy is responsible for our universe's rapid expansion.
Observations from the Roman telescope should help scientists better understand them, and what they find could change how we understand the cosmos.
Scientists also hope to discover over 100,000 exoplanets.
Planets outside our own solar system.
Once operational, Roman will beam back over one terabyte of data per day.
For NPR News, I'm Brendan Byrne in Orlando.
Thanks, Jane.
Sure.
Yes.
So this was a blow to the schedule, as you mentioned.
It was a huge, huge event here in Florida, miles away from the launch pad.
We could see it.
We could feel it.
You could hear it.
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