{ "count": 210, "next": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/search/?keywords=Cleanroom&limit=100&offset=100", "previous": null, "results": [ { "id": 15080, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15080/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-08-28T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman: Go For Launch", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is prepped for launch, and one phase of Roman is ending. It began with the 2010 Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey, where the community called for a wide-field infrared survey telescope: WFIRST. This was Roman’s start. Institutes and businesses across the country began developing new hardware to support this mission. At the observatory’s heart was a mirror the same size as Hubble’s and a set of 18 state-of-the-art detectors that allowed for both a massive field of view and extremely high angular resolution. This combination would allow Roman to create vast and detailed surveys of the universe unlike anything seen before. Roman also holds a Coronagraph Instrument to test hardware never before flown in space. It will be able to see distant planets orbiting other stars and is a major step toward finding life outside the solar system.Much of Roman’s hardware was developed and built in-house at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Other key systems came from places like NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), BAE Systems, and L3Harris. Beginning in 2023, all the parts converged on Goddard. Inside Goddard’s enormous clean room, a team of dedicated engineers and technicians spent over three years assembling the pieces. Throughout the process, they also used Goddard’s testing facilities to evaluate the hardware’s ability to survive launch and space. Pieces, assembled sections, and finally the entire observatory were subjected to tests like vibration and acoustic shaking, thermal vacuum freezing, and centrifuge g-force loading.The early completion and future success of the Roman Space Telescope is a testament to the unwavering commitment and effort of thousands of people working together toward a common goal. Thanks to all their efforts, Roman will broaden our understanding of the universe and our place within it.Music: “Caelum,” Dan Thiessen [BMI], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || RomanGoForLaunch_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.6 MB] || RomanGoForLaunch_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [88.5 KB] || RomanGoForLaunch_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.5 KB] || 15080_RomanGoForLaunch_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [170.3 MB] || RomanGoForLaunchCaptions.en_US.srt [3.0 KB] || RomanGoForLaunchCaptions.en_US.vtt [2.8 KB] || 15080_RomanGoForLaunch_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [354.2 MB] || 15080_RomanGoForLaunch_4k_Best.mp4 (3840x2160) [699.6 MB] || 15080_RomanGoForLaunch_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [12.2 GB] || ", "hits": 3641 }, { "id": 15076, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15076/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-08-13T08:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Reflections", "description": "During Roman's final days at NASAGoddard, many people who have worked and followed this mission over many years reflect on its upcoming journey. Check out Roman’s final curtain call as it got ready to set sail.Music: \"Picture The Scene,\" Kathryn Louise Maclennan [PRS], Universal Production Music Complete transcript available. || RomanReflections_still.jpg (1920x1080) [356.4 KB] || RomanReflections_still_searchweb.png (320x180) [102.6 KB] || RomanReflections_still_thm.png (80x40) [7.6 KB] || RomanReflections_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [71.2 MB] || RomanReflections_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [244.8 MB] || RomanReflections.en_US.srt [1.8 KB] || RomanReflections.en_US.vtt [1.7 KB] || RomanReflections_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 437 }, { "id": 15071, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15071/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2026-07-30T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Moving to Kennedy Space Center PHSF Building", "description": "With Pegasus secured to the dock, opened up, and the CHARIOT unchained from the deck, a semi pulled Roman out and onto dry land. Designed for this kind of transport, the Kennedy roads allowed faster, easier transport to the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Once inside the airlock chamber, technicians removed the driving hardware and moved the CHARIOT on a cushion of pressurized air. || KSC_Roman_PHSF_Arrival_CHARIOT_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [1.8 MB] || KSC_Roman_PHSF_Arrival_CHARIOT_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [84.2 KB] || KSC_Roman_PHSF_Arrival_CHARIOT_Still_thm.png (80x40) [6.5 KB] || KSC_Roman_PHSF_Arrival_CHARIOT_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [1.7 GB] || ", "hits": 302 }, { "id": 15068, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15068/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2026-07-28T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Being Loaded into the CHARIOT", "description": "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. || Packing_CHARIOT_Still.jpg (3840x2160) [3.2 MB] || Packing_CHARIOT_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [113.8 KB] || Packing_CHARIOT_Still_thm.png (80x40) [8.0 KB] || Goddard_SSDIF_CHARIOTPacking_B-roll.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.8 GB] || ", "hits": 330 }, { "id": 15058, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15058/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-07-08T14:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope and The Journey to Space", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope recently completed an epic 8-day voyage, the culmination of more than a decade of dedicated cross-country teamwork. This video retraces Roman's journey from humble beginnings as individual components spread across the country to the observatory's completion at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and finally to the launch site at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Next, Roman will undergo final preparations prior to launch, which is slated for Aug. 30.Narrated by John Rhys-DaviesMusic: “Comic Book Hero,” Adam Saunders [PRS] and Mark Stephen Cousins [PRS], Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || Roman_Map_Video_Thumbnail_V2.jpg (1920x1080) [1.3 MB] || Roman_Map_Video_Thumbnail_V2_searchweb.png (320x180) [110.9 KB] || Roman_Map_Video_Thumbnail_V2_thm.png (80x40) [8.3 KB] || 15058_Roman_Map_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [137.5 MB] || 15058_Roman_Map_YT.mp4 (1920x1080) [434.3 MB] || RomanMapCaptions.en_US.srt [1.3 KB] || RomanMapCaptions.en_US.vtt [1.3 KB] || 15058_Roman_Map_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.2 GB] || ", "hits": 1147 }, { "id": 15049, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15049/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-29T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "One Last Look at Roman's Mirrors", "description": "The primary mirror for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has passed its final inspection. On May 20 and 21, engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., confirmed that no specks fell onto the mirrors during testing and that there are no defects in the coating or alignment. With this milestone complete, the primary mirror is ready for its next view: space.Music: “All This Time,” Joseph Michael Robbins [PRS], Universal Production Music Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_RomanLastLook.jpg (1280x720) [80.5 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_searchweb.png (320x180) [85.1 KB] || YTframe_RomanLastLook_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [71.1 MB] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.srt [484 bytes] || 15049RomanLastLookCaptions.en_US.vtt [474 bytes] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kGood.mp4 (3840x2160) [139.1 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_4kBest.mp4 (3840x2160) [340.9 MB] || 15049_RomanLastLook_ProRes_3840x2160_2997.mov (3840x2160) [4.0 GB] || RomanLastLook4k.hwshow [505 bytes] || ", "hits": 509 }, { "id": 15000, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15000/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-05-19T20:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Telescope's Final Solar Panel and Deployable Aperture Cover Deployments", "description": "After each environmental test, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope verifies its moving pieces operate properly. These final checks demonstrate that the solar panels and Deployable Aperture Cover operate flawlessly, ensuring the observatory is ready for the demands of spaceflight.The mechanisms that drive these deployments are not engineered for gravity, where even large structures move with minimal resistance. The cleanroom’s airflow pushes against the broad surfaces of the solar panels and aperture cover, placing added stress on their hinges. To compensate, engineers conduct these tests behind a temporary plastic windscreen, carefully positioned and lifted into place by a crane.The Deployable Aperture Cover requires a weight-offloading system to operate here on Earth. Cables are attached to a network of pulleys and chains, effectively counteracting gravity and allowing the structure to move as it would in space. || ", "hits": 955 }, { "id": 15004, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15004/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-21T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is Ready for Launch", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch in September 2026. That is nearly eight months ahead of its required launch readiness date of May 2027.In its final years of construction, the observatory underwent rigorous environmental tests designed to prove it can withstand the demanding journey from Earth to space.These environmental tests included blasting the telescope with the intense sound of a rocket launch, vibrating the observatory while enclosed in a protective clean tent, another launch simulation, and placing it inside a thermal vacuum chamber where it was cooled to the extreme operating temperatures of space.Each of these tests proved Roman's worthiness for early flight and is a testament to the hard work from the entire team. || ", "hits": 2189 }, { "id": 15003, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/15003/", "result_type": "Gallery", "release_date": "2026-04-20T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Dragonfly Mass Spectrometer – Carousel Imagery", "description": "Images of the Dragonfly Sample Delivery Carousel being integrated onto the DraMS instrument at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.", "hits": 193 }, { "id": 14993, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14993/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-04-08T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses", "description": "Building a telescope like the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope requires long hours focusing on small regions, repeated with precision day after day. These timelapses capture that slow and steady pace with long-exposure images stitched together to highlight the continuous work behind the scenes.In much the same way, the telescope itself will stitch together vast numbers of exposures into sweeping scientific surveys. By observing millions of stars over time, it will track changes across the cosmos capturing exploding stars, belching black holes, neutron star mergers, and more phenomena as they unfold. || ", "hits": 363 }, { "id": 14948, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14948/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-03-31T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "Integrating The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Two Halves", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.The telescope and instruments were mounted to Roman’s instrument carrier and precisely aligned in the largest clean room at Goddard, where the observatory is being assembled. Now, the whole assembly is being attached to the Roman spacecraft, which will deliver the observatory to its orbit and enable it to function once there.In the footage below technicians carefully lift the outer portion of the telescope, called the OSD or Outer Barrel, SASS, Deployable Aperature Cover, and place it over the internal half. Long guard rails keep the two halves in perfect position. The solar panels open shortly after the two havles joined, marking a nearly deployed and fully assembled observatory. || ", "hits": 604 }, { "id": 14960, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14960/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-02-04T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "A Final Look at The Roman Space Telescope's Primary Mirror: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope is nearly ready for final integration, when the outer and inner halves will be fitted together to form the full observatory. Until this point, the two halves have undergone individual environmental testing. Once united, the observatory will continue environmental testing and verification. || ", "hits": 372 }, { "id": 14961, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14961/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2026-01-30T18:00:00-05:00", "title": "The Roman Space Telescope - Just Before Integration: Beauty Shots", "description": "The Roman Space Telescope team is preparing to join the two halves that will form the full observatory. Currently, Roman consists of the internal section, housing the mirror assembly and science instruments, and the outer portion, which includes the solar panels and deployable aperture cover.In this footage, team members inspect their work and take final looks before the mirror assembly disappears beneath the Outer Barrel Assembly. Once fully integrated, Roman will move on to its final environmental tests. || ", "hits": 490 }, { "id": 14939, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14939/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Multi-camera Time-lapse of Roman's Assembly Completion", "description": "NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. || ", "hits": 467 }, { "id": 14878, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14878/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-31T11:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope Lower Instrument Sun Shade", "description": "Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the observatory’s Solar Array Sun Shield and Deployable Aperture Cover, the panels (together called the Lower Instrument Sun Shade), will play a critical role in keeping Roman’s instruments cool and stable as the mission explores the infrared universe. || ", "hits": 629 }, { "id": 14864, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14864/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-07-10T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope Solar Panels are Fully Installed", "description": "On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps in assembling the observatory. Collectively called the Solar Array Sun Shield, these panels will power and shade the observatory, enabling all the mission’s observations and helping keep the instruments cool.The Solar Array Sun Shield is made up of six panels, each covered in solar cells. The two central panels will remain fixed to the outer barrel assembly (the observatory’s outer shell) while the other four will deploy once Roman is in space, swinging up to align with the center panels.In this video, watch how the technicians carefully place each solar panel. || ", "hits": 360 }, { "id": 14842, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14842/", "result_type": "B-Roll", "release_date": "2025-05-19T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Outer Shell Passes Thermal Test - Drone Footage", "description": "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. || ", "hits": 137 }, { "id": 14777, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14777/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-31T11:00:00-05:00", "title": "Coming Together : Roman's Internal Pieces are now Installed", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is in the SCIPA configuation 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. || ", "hits": 239 }, { "id": 14761, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14761/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-29T09:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Instruments and Mirror attached to the Spacecraft Bus", "description": "NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in the formation of SCIPA (Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly). The footage captures the Integrated Payload Assembly, which contains the Mirror assembly, Instrument Carrier, and the two science instruments, the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph, along with the hexagonal Spacecraft bus, which houses electronics and the propulsion system. SCIPA includes all the primary internal parts of the telescope. This whole assembly will undergo further testing until integrated with the Outer Barrel assembly, deployable aperture cover, and solar panels. || ", "hits": 193 }, { "id": 14757, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14757/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Space Telescope's Coronagraph Instrument Integration into the Instrument Carrier", "description": "The Coronagraph, one of two science instruments, finds it home in NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Telescope Instrument Carrier.Designed and built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Roman Coronagraph will advance scientists’ ability to directly image planets and disks around other stars (exoplanets). Coronagraphs work by blocking light from a bright object, like a star, so that the observer can more easily see a faint object, like a planet. The Roman Coronagraph is designed to detect planets 100 million times fainter than their stars, or 100 to 1,000 times better than existing space-based coronagraphs. The Roman Coronagraph will be capable of directly imaging reflected starlight from a planet akin to Jupiter in size, temperature, and distance from its parent star. || ", "hits": 333 }, { "id": 14759, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14759/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman's Wide Field Instrument added to the Mirror Assembly", "description": "B-roll footage slowed from 60 frames per second and 30 frames per second of the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) installation. || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_print.jpg (1024x576) [202.4 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_searchweb.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_web.png (320x180) [103.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [35.6 MB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.03840_thm.png [6.9 KB] || 1_-_14759_-_Footage_Romans_Wide_Field_Instrument_added_to_Mirror_Assembly.mp4 (3840x2160) [3.8 GB] || ", "hits": 241 }, { "id": 14760, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14760/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-21T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Mirror Assembly for Roman Space Telescope Arrives to NASA Goddard", "description": "This footage depicts the mirror assembly for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arriving at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. It is transported at night to accommodate the slow-moving specialized transport vehicle called the \"Chariot.\" Within hours of arriving, the lid of the Chariot was removed, and the lower portion was pushed into NASA's largest cleanroom for further unpacking.Designed and built by L3Harris Technologies in Rochester, New York, the assembly incorporates key optics (including the primary mirror) that were made available to NASA by the National Reconnaissance Office. The team at L3Harris then reshaped the mirror and built upon the inherited hardware to ensure it would meet Roman's specifications for expansive, sensitive infrared observations.Roman's primary mirror is 7.9 feet (2.4 meters) across. While it's the same size as the Hubble Space Telescope's main mirror, it is less than one-fourth the weight. Roman's mirror weighs only 410 pounds (186 kilograms) thanks to major improvements in technology.The newly resurfaced mirror sports a layer of silver less than 400 nanometers thick – about 200 times thinner than a human hair. The silver coating was specifically chosen for Roman because of how well it reflects near-infrared light. The primary mirror, in concert with other optics, will send light to Roman's two science instruments – the Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph Instrument. The first is essentially a giant 300-megapixel camera that provides the same sharp resolution as Hubble across nearly 100 times the field of view. Using this instrument, scientists will be able to map the structure and distribution of invisible dark matter, study planetary systems around other stars, and explore how the universe evolved to its present state. || ", "hits": 316 }, { "id": 14746, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14746/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2025-01-14T13:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman SCIPA Hyperwall Time-lapse", "description": "This 3x3-hyperwall-resolution 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 sequence does not have sound and is available as video and frames.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg (5760x3240) [8.6 MB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [126.8 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still_thm.png [8.3 KB] || 5760x3240_16x9_30p (5760x3240) [17806 Item(s)] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg.dzi [178 bytes] || Roman_SCIPA_TL_Still.jpg_files [4.0 KB] || Roman_SCIPA_Time-lapse_D4.mp4 (5760x3240) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 126 }, { "id": 14575, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14575/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-04-26T13:30:00-04:00", "title": "Moving Roman - Propulsion", "description": "Moving Roman: Propulsion. 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. || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [979.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [120.8 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [8.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [727.4 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.webm (3840x2160) [78.9 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.srt [4.4 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion.en_US.vtt [4.2 KB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion-4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [720.5 MB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [2.4 GB] || Moving_Roman_-_Propulsion_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [16.6 GB] || ", "hits": 540 }, { "id": 14560, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14560/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2024-03-26T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Propulsion System - Timelapses", "description": "The construction of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is fully underway now that the propulsion system is installed into the spacecraft bus. This video shows activity in the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center cleanroom, where technicians position the hexagonal spacecraft bus on the work platform called the Pantheon. The four fuel tanks on their deck are placed onto a specialized jack and lifted carefully into the spacecraft bus. This whole system is built to supply the tiny thrusters hidden by red caps on the propulsion tank system. The tanks supply hydrazine fuel to the thrusters. The observatory uses the thrusters to maneuver into the correct orbit after launch and make large movements once operational. || ", "hits": 283 }, { "id": 14491, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14491/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-12-26T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "Roman Hardware Highlights", "description": "This video opens with an aerial view of the complete observatory inside NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s largest clean room, the Spacecraft Systems Development and Integration Facility. The room is a class 10,000 clean room with over one million cubic feet of space.Some parts of Roman stow for launch. Once in space, these deployable components move into their operational positions. Engineers test these deployments on the ground to make sure they will go as planned in space. Four of the six Solar Array Sun Shield panels deploy. They fold against the spacecraft to fit inside the rocket fairing and then deploy in space to make a large flat plane that both collects light to generate electricity and helps keep the rest of Roman cool. The Deployable Aperture Cover (DAC), which protects the mirrors during launch and then unfolds to help shield them from sunlight, also test deploys. During this test, lines connect to it and pull upward to negate Earth’s gravitational forces, which Roman will not experience in space. In preparation for vibration and acoustic testing, technicians put a clean tent over Roman and transport it out of the clean room. They push it next to the massive vibration tables, one of which shakes horizontally and the other vertically. A crane lifts Roman and the tent onto the tables, and also performs a 90-degree rotation after one horizontal test so that Roman can be tested on a different axis with the same table. Engineers attach hundreds of sensors and run tests of increasing intensity. During and after each test, they carefully study the data to make sure that Roman is behaving as anticipated.For the acoustic test, they push it into the test chamber where a six-foot-tall horn projects up to 150-decibel sound at varying frequencies. A thick door seals the chamber and prevents most of the sound from escaping, although ear protection is still required for anyone nearby during a test. These tests are mostly to ensure that Roman can survive the rigors of launch. Once in space, it won’t be subjected to nearly as much force.Once the tests are successfully completed, Roman re-enters the clean room and the tent is removed. After a deployment test of the High-Gain Antenna, done on a structure called the Pantheon, technicians lift Roman to a special rollover fixture that can safely tilt and spin Roman’s 18,500 pound mass. Once Roman is tilted horizontal for the first time as a full observatory, engineers slowly spin it through 360 degrees to make sure everything stays in place like it is supposed to.After the rotations, technicians carefully perform a manual opening of the DAC to reveal the mirror. In this position, they can inspect the entire optical path all the way back to the instrument sensors and perform surface cleaning on the inside of the protective outer barrel and DAC. This is also a chance for final goodbyes to the mirror. Once the DAC is closed, no one will ever see the mirror as clearly again.With all the assembly and testing at Goddard completed, the team begins the delicate process of loading Roman into an airtight container known as the CHARIOT (Conditioned Housing for Air, Road, Imaging optics assembly, and Observatory Transport). First they attach arms which will form the interior sides and support Roman. Then they lift and move Roman into the lower bed of the CHARIOT. An inner lid goes on first, followed by a larger outer lid with ducting to keep the observatory the right temperature and preserve the clean environment. As the CHARIOT leaves the clean room, Roman takes its first step in the journey to space.Music credit: “Touching Clouds,” Andre Jesus Oliveira and Andre Miguel Lopes Roque [PRS], Universal Production MusicWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available. || YTframe_Roman_Hardware_Highlights_WinterSpring2026_7.jpg (1280x720) [331.6 KB] || Roman_HH_Winter-Spring2026_10mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [233.2 MB] || Roman_HH_Winter-Spring2026_20mbps.mp4 (1920x1080) [477.4 MB] || RomanHHEarly2026Captions.en_US.srt [2.0 KB] || RomanHHEarly2026Captions.en_US.vtt [1.9 KB] || Roman_HH_Winter-Spring2026_NoText.mp4 (1920x1080) [1.1 GB] || Roman_HH_Winter-Spring2026_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [3.2 GB] || ", "hits": 644 }, { "id": 14472, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14472/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-11-27T00:00:00-05:00", "title": "360 Video of NASA's Webb Telescope at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center", "description": "This 360 video was taken before NASA's James Webb Space Telescope left NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in May 2017. Look around to see engineers at work in the cleanroom, and for several plaques with information about the cleanroom and about the Webb telescope! || ", "hits": 33 }, { "id": 14422, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14422/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-10-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Instrument Carrier Arrives", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Instrument Carrier arrives at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The workers remove the grid-like structure from the truck container that brought it and move it into a clean tent. Once there, engineers remove the protective wrapping and inspect the carbon fiber struts. The Instrument Carrier sits between the primary mirror and spacecraft bus and will hold Roman's Wide Field Instrument and Coronagraph technology demonstration.Music: \"Knowledge and Process\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || Roman_Instrument_Carrier.jpg (1849x1004) [426.6 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_searchweb.png (320x180) [105.1 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_thm.png (80x40) [10.6 KB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Good.webm (1920x1080) [13.2 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Good.mp4 (1920x1080) [105.1 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Best.mp4 (1920x1080) [257.6 MB] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Captions.en_US.srt [894 bytes] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_Captions.en_US.vtt [907 bytes] || Roman_Instrument_Carrier_Arrival_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [1.4 GB] || ", "hits": 214 }, { "id": 14412, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14412/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-22T09:00:00-04:00", "title": "How NASA Will Study the Asteroid Bennu Samples", "description": "Learn more about how NASA will curate and study samples of asteroid Bennu that were collected by OSIRIS-REx.Complete transcript available.Universal Production Music: “Mirage” and “Manifest” by Ben Niblett and Jonathan David Cotton, Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd [PRS]; “Lumos” by Ben Niblett and Jonathan David Cotton, Nova Production Music Ltd [PRS]Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel. || 14412_OREX_ScienceGoals_Thumbnail_print.jpg (1024x576) [203.8 KB] || 14412_OREX_ScienceGoals_Thumbnail.jpg (1280x720) [376.7 KB] || 14412_OREX_ScienceGoals_Thumbnail.png (1280x720) [1.5 MB] || 14412_OREX_ScienceGoals_Thumbnail_searchweb.png (320x180) [108.5 KB] || 14412_OREX_ScienceGoals_Thumbnail_thm.png (80x40) [6.9 KB] || 14412_OSIRIS-REx_Science_Goals_720.mp4 (1280x720) [59.1 MB] || 14412_OSIRIS-REx_Science_Goals_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [330.5 MB] || OsirisRexScienceGoals_Captions.en_US.srt [6.0 KB] || OsirisRexScienceGoals_Captions.en_US.vtt [5.7 KB] || 14412_OSIRIS-REx_Science_Goals_4K.mp4 (3840x2160) [4.0 GB] || 14412_OSIRIS-REx_Science_Goals_ProRes.mov (3840x2160) [28.2 GB] || ", "hits": 66 }, { "id": 14409, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14409/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-09-08T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman High-Gain Antenna Dish Integration", "description": "The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s high-gain antenna system has been integrated onto the spacecraft’s communications panel. The almost-6-foot dish is integral to Roman’s communications process; once Roman is launched, the dish will “beam down” data to ground systems across the globe.Music: \"Chasing Rainbows\" from Universal Production MusicComplete transcript available. || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still.jpg (1920x1080) [943.8 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_searchweb.png (320x180) [107.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_16x9_Still_thm.png (80x40) [7.9 KB] || HGA_Integration_1080.webm (1920x1080) [6.8 MB] || HGA_Integration_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [122.5 MB] || HGA_Integration_ProRes_1920x1080_2997.mov (1920x1080) [897.2 MB] || ", "hits": 372 }, { "id": 5143, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5143/", "result_type": "Visualization", "release_date": "2023-08-30T16:30:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Sample Landing and Recovery in Utah", "description": "This visualization introduces viewers to where landing and recovery operations will take place for the sample return capsule from OSIRIS-REx. Imagery were sourced from NASA’s Blue Marble dataset and the Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2) on Landsat 9. || utah_vis_4kprores.00001_print.jpg (1024x576) [125.7 KB] || utah_vis_4kprores.00001_searchweb.png (320x180) [75.1 KB] || utah_vis_4kprores.00001_thm.png (80x40) [5.6 KB] || utah_vis_720.mp4 (1280x720) [42.7 MB] || utah_vis_1080.mp4 (1920x1080) [125.1 MB] || utah_vis_4k.mp4 (3840x2160) [147.9 MB] || utah_vis_4kprores.mov (3840x2160) [4.6 GB] || osiris-rex-sample-landing-and-recovery-in-utah.hwshow [177 bytes] || ", "hits": 115 }, { "id": 14404, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14404/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-08-23T10:00:00-04:00", "title": "Installing the Roman Space Telescope's Nervous System", "description": "NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft’s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another.The wire harness is so intricate that it was first built on a mock-up structure. 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. || ", "hits": 214 }, { "id": 14388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14388/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-07-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "OSIRIS-REx Sample Curation Rehearsals", "description": "OSIRIS-REx team members practice extracting samples of asteroid Bennu from the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM) on June 8, 2023. 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The spacecraft bus, Roman’s primary support element, will now be built upon this skeletal framework. Roman will help unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter, search for and image exoplanets, and explore many topics in infrared astrophysics.It’s partly made up of a central cylinder with a top deck that will support most of the observatory. Each of its six sides has a compartment that will house key electronics and other hardware needed to operate the observatory. Major spacecraft elements, such as its power, attitude control and propulsion systems, will be housed within the primary structure. The high-gain antenna will be installed beneath it, and the lowermost part of the primary structure will attach the spacecraft to the rocket during launch.The structure is mainly made of a special grade of aluminum that’s strong, yet lightweight. To reduce the weight even further, most of its exterior is partly hollowed out in a triangular pattern called an isogrid. Even though it’s large – about 14 feet (4.3 meters) long, 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide, and 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall – the primary structure weighs just 3,600 pounds (1,600 kilograms). || ", "hits": 450 }, { "id": 14342, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14342/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2023-05-01T12:00:00-04:00", "title": "Roman's Central Cylinder Enters the Cleanroom", "description": "Music Credits: By Design - Ben BeinyMicroworld - Benji Paul Merrison and Will SlaterComplete transcript available.