The $4.3 billion space telescope Trump tried to cancel, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is now complete “We’re going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy.”
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/the-4-3-billion-space-telescope-trump-tried-to-cancel-is-now-complete/
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I can’t wait to see the movies!
Amazes me that anyone can claim to love our nation while actively destroying our scientific prospects.
Hell ya! That’s awesome. I very much look forward to seeing this telescope in action.
Why is it named after Nancy Grace?
why would anyone name a telescope after nancy grace?
edit: it was a serious question
I hope they got the optic prescription right because…….
Yea let’s go!! Love to see these sorts of wins for the space scene.
>“We’re going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy.”
Great project, terrible PR.
Cool.
Named after Nancy Grace Roman, not Nancy Grace, btw.
Awesome news. And a launch expected in the fall 2026! Really exciting to see these projects come to fruition.
We do need this. Many older ones need to be replaced, the og replacement never happen.
“3D movies of what’s going on in the galaxy”
Maybe it should have been cancelled
Just rename it the Peace Prize telescope and he’ll ensure it goes up.
Planned to be at Lagrange point L2 (like JWST), which is cool…but I think limits its lifespan (due to propellant budget, and probably hard/impossible to service). Won’t be getting the absurd longevity out of stuff like Hubble (currently 35 years?) anymore.
Pretty neat that the mirror size is the same as Hubble, but it’s the extra detectors that enable such a higher resolution.
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|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
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|[JWST](/r/Space/comments/1pogjtv/stub/nufml8f “Last usage”)|James Webb infra-red Space Telescope|
|[L2](/r/Space/comments/1pogjtv/stub/nufml8f “Last usage”)|[Lagrange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point) 2 ([Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpVbU5FH0s) video explanation)|
| |Paywalled section of the NasaSpaceFlight forum|
|[NG](/r/Space/comments/1pogjtv/stub/nuf93m8 “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
| |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
| |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|
|[NOAA](/r/Space/comments/1pogjtv/stub/nufcd38 “Last usage”)|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for US ~~generation~~ monitoring of the climate|
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