GermanyThe US space agency NASA has launched the new 'Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope' into orbit using a Falcon Heavy rocket from SpaceX's launch site at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The telescope is expected to reach its orbital position approximately 1.6 million kilometers from Earth within a month and begin transmitting images by early 2027. The mission has a total budget exceeding four billion dollars. Scientists plan to use the telescope to search for dark matter and dark energy, two major mysteries in astronomy. It also features a coronagraph developed in Heidelberg, which allows for the detection and imaging of exoplanets, planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope operates similarly to the aging Hubble telescope but is significantly faster and more powerful. In one month, it could complete observations that would take Hubble a century. Additionally, the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in late 2021 as a complement to Hubble and the Nancy Grace Roman. The development of the Nancy Grace Roman was influenced by the failure of a US intelligence project and would not have occurred under former President Donald Trump's administration.
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