Joe Palka
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237 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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The good news is two potentially major storms in the Atlantic basin won't pose a problem.
But launch weather officer Justin McReynolds of the US Space Force says local weather off the Florida coast means there's a fifty fifty chance of a launch.
If weather does cause a delay, there's another launch opportunity on Monday morning.
Once in space, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will head to a point about a million miles from Earth and
Where it will conduct its five year mission.
It's intended to search for new planets and galaxies as well as a special type of exploding star called a type one A supernova.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
month.
The milestone was a flight readiness review where all relevant teams report on the mission's status prior to launch.
Roman, as the telescope is known to its friends, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket august thirtieth from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The new observatory is what's known as a survey telescope.
It will be using a new technique to search for planets orbiting distant stars, and it will also be searching for type one A supernovas, a kind of exploding star that astronomers use to measure the speed at which the universe is expanding.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
at the end of the month.
The milestone was a flight readiness review where all relevant teams report on the mission's status prior to launch.
Roman, as the telescope is known to its friends, is set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket august thirtieth from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The new observatory is what's known as a survey telescope.
Instead of staring at a small patch of sky, looking intently at a limited number of objects, Roman will look at wide swaths of the sky.
It will be using a new technique to search for planets orbiting distant stars, and it will also be searching for type one A supernovas, a kind of exploding star that astronomers use to measure the speed at which the universe is expanding.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
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