Roman Vertical Video

  • Released Monday, March 3, 2025

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

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.

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

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

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 initial game release.

Music: “On the Tube,” Ambroise Dehaiis [SACEM], Universal Production Music and “Arcade Avenger,” Lance Morrison [ASCAP], Universal Production Music



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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.