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Falcon Heavy is set to launch Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
NET Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC
Mission profile
Flight simulation
A representative gravity-turn climb for Falcon Heavy to Sun-Earth L2. Illustrative model — not this mission’s live telemetry.
SimulatedRepresentative Falcon Heavy ascent profile — illustrative model, not this mission’s live telemetry.
The mission
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.
Around this launch
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Good to know
Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to lift off Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 11:20 AM UTC — this page shows a live countdown.
A live webcast will appear on this page as soon as the provider publishes a stream link.
Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a SpaceX mission flying on a Falcon Heavy.
It lifts off from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.