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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST), formerly known as Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), is currently under development by NASA, to potentially be launched and put in a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point in the mid 2020's.
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Why are they putting insulating blankets around the new space coronagraph?
As part of the integration process, engineers also ensured blanketing layers were in place to insulate the coronagraph within its place in the Instrument Carrier. The coronagraph is designed to ...
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What limits the duration of the Roman Space Telescope mission?
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a planned duration of five years. Is this a hard limit due to expendables on the spacecraft; it is an infrared telescope so presumably will have a coolant, ...
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What "improvements in technology" allowed the primary mirror of RST (WFIRST) to be less than 1/4 the weight of Hubble's?
The recent NASA press release Primary Mirror for NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Completed states:
While it’s the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope’s main mirror, it is less than one-fourth the ...
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Will WFIRST and JWST be able to resolve each other?
The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in 2021 and be put in a halo orbit around Sun-Earth L2 soon after. The plan for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope is a launch perhaps ...
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