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Fuel is a finite resource for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Watch this video to learn more about how the tanks for propellent are installed and why they are an essential part of the mission.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.Music Credits: Univeral Production Music: \"Black Nebula\" by Thomas Daniel Bellingham\"Maelstrom Dream\" by Lucie Rose\"Evolution of Life\" by David Stephen Goldsmith\"Maximist\" by Michael Blainey\"Greatness Takes Time\" by Beth Perry and Chris Doney\"Asthma inhaler\" by natty23\"Compressed Air\" by thompsonmanWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } }, { "id": 425410, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14525, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14525/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Moving Roman - Reaction Wheels", "description": "Moving Roman: Reaction Wheels. 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The video shows it lifted from that first structure, using a custom-built basket called the harness transfer tool and placed into the primary structure that will fly with the observatory.Now, engineers will weave the harness through the flight structure in Goddard’s big clean room. This ongoing process will continue until most of the spacecraft components are assembled. In the meantime, the Goddard team will soon begin installing electronics boxes that will eventually provide power via the harness to all the spacecraft’s science instruments. || ", "release_date": "2023-08-23T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2026-03-16T14:44:11-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 857931, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014400/a014404/Mezzanine.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "Mezzanine.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Timelapse of the wire harness as it is lifted on its custom transport basket from the mock primary structure to the flight structure. ", "width": 1024, "height": 540, "pixels": 552960 } } }, { "id": 408964, "type": "details_page", "extra_data": null, "instance": { "id": 14342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14342/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Roman's Central Cylinder Enters the Cleanroom", "description": "Music Credits: By Design - Ben BeinyMicroworld - Benji Paul Merrison and Will SlaterComplete transcript available.