Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Passes Thermal Test - Drone Footage
The outer portion of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently passed a major milestone: thermal cycling. Drone footage captures its emergence from the test facility and return to the clean room. The Roman Space Telescope is a NASA observatory designed to perform wide-field imaging and surveys of the near-infrared sky.
On May 1, the outer portion of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, enclosed in a protective tent, emerged from testing in a vast thermal vacuum chamber and returned to NASA Goddard's biggest clean room for further work. This drone footage captures the journey.
Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy
0:00 A crane lifts Roman's outer layers and solar panels out of the Space Environment Simulator. 1:42 The crane moves the hardware down the facility's corridor. 2:56 Now attached to a movable platform, the assembly is pushed down the rest of the corridor and guided into Goddard's Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility, a large clean room.
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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Drone pilot
- Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
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Producers
- Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
- Sophia Roberts (eMITS)
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Editor
- Sophia Roberts (eMITS)
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Drone crew
- Laine Havens (NASA Interns)
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This page was originally published on Monday, May 19, 2025.
This page was last updated on Monday, May 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM EDT.