A team of engineers and technicians at Ball Aerospace and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center have finished assembling the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's giant camera.
, and the instrument command and data handling electronics. Then engineers from both teams put all these building blocks together in a clean room in Boulder, Colorado, mechanically and electrically integrating the components into one system. Now, the team will complete full environmental testing in space-like conditions before delivering the WFI to Goddard in summer 2024.
“Overall, Roman’s camera greatly exceeds the mission’s performance requirements, including the operational capabilities of the camera detectors,” said Julie McEnery, Roman’s project scientist at Goddard. “So now we get to explore how much better Roman’s surveys will be, and what we’ll be able to do with the extra scientific riches they produce.”
An X-ray view of Roman’s Wide Field Instrument, currently wrapped in a multi-layer insulation for testing, reveals the complex inner workings. The highlighted Focal Plane Array is the heart of the instrument and holds the 18 detectors that will capture expansive views of the sky.For more information about the Roman Space Telescope, visit:
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