L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has delivered the Optical Telescope Assembly (OTA) to NASA that serves as the critical “eye” for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope by providing precise and stable imagery. The […]
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
BAE Systems completes testing, ships primary instrument for Roman Space Telescope
BAE Systems has successfully shipped the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI) to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, signaling the completion of integration and […]
BAE Systems testing of Roman Space Telescope’s primary instrument nearing completion
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s Wide Field Instrument (WFI), the primary scientific instrument on NASA’s next-generation observatory, has entered the final stages of environmental testing at BAE Systems in […]
L3Harris team aligns 10 mirrors for NASA’s Roman telescope
In a feat of precision engineering, L3Harris demonstrated the telescope’s ability to capture crisp images from deep space. When it launches by 2027, the NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope […]
MSI DFAT Services, LLC completes acoustic qualification test for the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope
MSI DFAT Services, LLC. has reached a significant milestone in its collaboration with NASA Goddard by successfully completing the acoustic qualification test for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — […]
New NASA mission to study ultraviolet sky, stars, stellar explosions
As NASA explores the unknown in air and space, a new mission to survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky will provide the agency with more insight into how galaxies […]
SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
On Saturday, July 1 at 11:12 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched the ESA Euclid mission to a Sun-Earth L2 transfer orbit, also known as the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, from Space […]
NASA delivers completed Heart of Roman Space Telescope’s Primary Instrument to Ball Aerospace
The heart of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was recently delivered to Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, for integration into the WFI (Wide Field Instrument). Called the FPS (Focal […]
Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going
A full calendar year has 8,760 hours and a commercial airliner can be in service for about 30 years (or around 165,000 flying hours). Achieving a continuous performance milestone of […]
Ball Aerospace integrates the opto-mechanical assembly for the Roman Space Telescope
Ball Aerospace has successfully completed the alignment and integration of the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) opto-mechanical assembly for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — the company has moved into […]