Roman Being Loaded into the CHARIOT

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Inside Goddard’s largest clean room, technicians moved Roman into a specially-built portable clean room called the CHARIOT (Conditioned Housing for Air, Road, Imaging optics assembly, and Observatory Transport). They lifted Roman into the lower portion, and then put an inner lid over it and covered the protruding antenna dish. Then they lowered an outer cover onto it, with attachments for the air conditioning to keep Roman at a safe temperature. 

Once in the CHARIOT, techs pushed Roman out of the clean room.

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This page was originally published on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.
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