Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next "great observatory," launches into space
The launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was a spectacle worthy of its own chapter in history.
By Grant Colby ·
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Roman Telescope confirms US dominance from Kennedy Space Center
The spectacle of the launch—a SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifting the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on August 30, 2026—is framed by the usual mix…
By Tom Beckwith ·
DESI map proves compute stack, not telescopes, matters more
The sheer scale of it is what always gets lost in the breathless press releases. We are presented with a map—a massive, gorgeous, 5.6-trillion-pixel rendering covering roughly 75% of the visible sky.
By Nikhil Raghavan ·
NASA fuels its next-gen Roman Space Telescope for August launch
There is a peculiar, almost exhausting grandeur to these announcements of technological readiness—the measured reports of gallons loaded into an observatory that will, in five…
By Elena Rossi ·