Drone Footage of The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Fully Deployed

  • Released Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope stands fully deployed as it will be in space. The solar panels reach their full width of over 14 feet (4.3 meters), and with the Deployable Aperture Cover standing tall, this observatory towers over 42 feet (12.8 meters) high –– taller than any other telescope created at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

This is the first drone footage captured inside a NASA cleanroom, fitting for Goddard's largest telescope.

Drone footage of the fully deployed Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA/Francis Reddy

This is the Roman Space Telescope fully deployed, seen from the ground with two people providing a sense of scale.

Credit: NASA/Rob Andreoli

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, April 8, 2026.
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