Roman Vertical Video
Vertical Version
This vertical version of the episode is for IGTV or Snapchat. The IGTV episode can be pulled into Instagram Stories and the regular Instagram feed.
This page collects all the vertically-formatted videos produced for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission.
Roman Moves to Space Environment Simulator
The inner portion of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is currently undergoing thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. For the next two months, Roman’s hardware will be subjected to extreme temperature and pressure conditions similar to what it will experience in space.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Music: “Chasing Rainbows,” Magnum Opus [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
LISS: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Lower Sun Shades
This video is available in vertical and horizontal formats.
Technicians installed the Lower Instrument Sun Shade, or LISS, for our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
The LISS consists of two deployable panels that will shade the lower observatory from sunlight. Its attachment marks the final step before Roman’s core ventures into the Space Environment Simulator at @NASAGoddard for 70 days. While in the simulator, the assembly will undergo testing immersed in the temperatures and pressures that it will experience in space.
To learn more, check out the link in our Roman highlight.
Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Music: “Of the Sea,” Jack Niemann [PRS], Universal Production Music
Complete transcript available.
SASS: Roman's Solar Panels Are Fully Installed
This video is available in vertical and horizontal formats. The vertical format has one copy with on-screen text and one without.
NASA technicians recently installed our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s solar array Sun shield — the set of solar panels that will travel with Roman a million miles away into space! These panels will power the entire observatory and help keep the instruments cool by shading them from sunlight.
Together with Roman’s visor-like sunshade and outer barrel assembly — which will house the telescope and instruments — the solar array Sun shield will soon undergo testing to ensure a successful launch.
The team is on track to connect Roman’s two halves in November, resulting in a complete observatory by the end of the year. Roman remains on schedule for launch by May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026.
Once in space, Roman’s large, crisp view will unveil more than 100,000 distant worlds, 100 million stars, more than a billion galaxies, and countless other cosmic objects, gathering clues to mysteries like dark energy and dark matter. We stand poised at the brink of unfathomable scientific discovery.
Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts
Music: “Turbulent Grace,” Tom Samson [PRS], Nick Reeves [PRS], and Graham Harding [PRS], Universal Production Music
Hardware Highlights Winter/Spring 2025
This video covers important hardware integration and testing on Roman from January to May 2025.
Music credit: “Sound of Progress,” Jonathan Elias and Sarah Trevino [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
Complete transcript available.
Hardware Highlights: Summer/Fall 2024 Reel
This video covers hardware highlights from the summer and fall of 2024.
Music credit: “Distinction,” Max Cameron Concors [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Optical Telescope Assembly Reel
Roman's optics have arrived in style from L3Harris
Let's unbox the Optical Telescope Assembly!
This is the final hardware component to arrive at @NASAGoddard, meaning all the pieces of Roman are here and ready to be put together!
Music: "For Eternity," Kavin Hoo [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
Hardware Highlights: Spring 2024 Reel
This video covers hardware highlights from the spring of 2024.
Music credit: “Aether,” Espen Haagensli [TONO], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Music credit: Your Intensity of Spirit by Jay Price - Universal Production Music
This short, vertical time-lapse video of Roman shows the major integration steps of the key systems to form SCIPA, or the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly. It includes the spacecraft bus, with all the support systems and electronics, the Wide Field Instrument, the Coronagraph Instrument, and the Optical Telescope Assembly, which is built around the 2.4 meter (7.9 foot) primary mirror. This version is suitable for social media applications.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music credit: “Forgotten Fortunes,” Magnum Opus [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
Complete transcript available.
Short, vertically-formatted version of time-lapse for social media use.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Music credit: "Irregular Quadrilateral" from the album Geometric Shapes. Written and produced by Lars Leonhard.
Complete transcript available.
Same as the above with captions burned in to video.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Music credit: "Breaking the Code" from Universal Production Music
Vertical shortened version of the horizontal video.
Music Credit: "Maximist" by Michael Blainey
Complete transcript available.
Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey Reel
This shortened video covers Roman's Galactic Bulge Time-Domain Survey. It is edited to under one minute and available in a vertical format for social media.
Music: "Beyond Truth" from Universal Production Music
This shortened video covers Time-Domain Astronomy. It is edited to under one minute and available in a vertical format for social media.
Music: "Elapsing Time" from Universal Production Music
Shorter, vertical version of the video for social media.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Origami Tree
Music: "Digital Dreamscape" from Universal Production Music
Complete transcript available.
Same as above, but in vertical format and under one minute for social media.
Music: "Knowledge and Process" from Universal Production Music
Complete transcript available.
Same as above but edited as vertical video for social media.
Short promotional video for the Nancy Grace Roman Interactive. Vertical format for phone screens.
Music: "Braniacs and Machines" from Universal Production Music.
Complete transcript available.
Roman Observer Teaser video for Black Hole Week 2024.
Music: “Voyager,” Jeremy Stack [PRS], Universal Production Music and “Novelty Act,” Steve Martin [PRS] Universal Production Music
Roman Observer Teaser video for initial game release.
Music: “On the Tube,” Ambroise Dehaiis [SACEM], Universal Production Music and “Arcade Avenger,” Lance Morrison [ASCAP], Universal Production Music
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. However, individual items should be credited as indicated above.
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Producers
- Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
- Sophia Roberts (eMITS)
- Courtney A. Lee (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Missions
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This page was originally published on Monday, March 3, 2025.
This page was last updated on Friday, August 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM EDT.









