Joe Palka
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 29 Aug
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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.
MAVEN is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution.
The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian atmosphere has largely disappeared over the last 3 to 4 billion years, a change that turned the planet into the dry, cold place it is today.
The spacecraft has been collecting data and sending it to Earth since it went into orbit around Mars more than a decade ago.
But last December, a brief radio signal indicated the craft had suddenly started spinning out of control.
That meant it was no longer able to point its solar panels towards the sun, and that meant the batteries went dead, making the probe inoperable.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
MAVEN is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution.
The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian atmosphere has largely disappeared over the last three to four billion years, a change that turned the planet into the dry, cold place it is today.
The spacecraft has been collecting data and sending it to Earth since it went into orbit around Mars more than a decade ago.
But last December, a brief radio signal indicated the craft had suddenly started spinning out of control.
That meant it was no longer able to point its solar panels towards the sun, and that meant the batteries went dead, making the probe inoperable.
For NPR News, I'm Joe Palka.
MAVEN is an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution.
The probe's mission was to help scientists understand why the Martian atmosphere has largely disappeared over the last 3 to 4 billion years, a change that turned the planet into the dry, cold place it is today.
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