Over the course of several hours, technicians meticulously connected the inner and outer segments of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Two technicians look up at NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope after its inner and outer segments were connected at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on Nov. 25, 2025. This marked the end of Roman’s construction. After final testing, the telescope will move to the launch site at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations in summer 2026. Roman — named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s first chief astronomer — is slated to launch by May 2027, but the team is on track for launch as early as fall 2026.
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在数小时的精细作业中，技术人员将NASA南希·格蕾丝·罗曼太空望远镜的内外部结构严密连接在一起。
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两名技术人员仰望着已完成结构对接的罗曼望远镜，这一幕发生在2025年11月25日，美国马里兰州戈达德太空飞行中心。这标志着罗曼望远镜主体建造正式完成。完成最终测试后，望远镜将被送往佛罗里达州肯尼迪航天中心，准备在2026年夏季展开发射筹备工作。罗曼望远镜以NASA首任天文学主管南希·格蕾丝·罗曼博士之名命名，计划于2027年5月前发射，但团队进度良好，最早有望在2026年秋季发射。
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