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Teleskop Luar Angkasa Roman Milik NASA Diluncurkan untuk Misi Survei Ruang Angkasa Dalam
Teleskop luar angkasa Nancy Grace Roman milik NASA diluncurkan dari Kennedy Space Center dengan roket SpaceX Falcon Heavy, memulai perjalanan sekitar sebulan menuju titik yang stabil secara gravitasi di luar orbit Bumi, tempat teleskop ini akan mensurvei kosmos sekitar seribu kali lebih cepat daripada Teleskop Luar Angkasa Hubble.
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Teleskop luar angkasa Nancy Grace Roman milik NASA diluncurkan pada 30 Agustus dari Kennedy Space Center di Florida dengan roket SpaceX Falcon Heavy, memulai perjalanan sekitar sebulan menuju titik Lagrange Matahari-Bumi L2, sekitar 1,6 juta kilometer dari Bumi. Setelah menetap di orbitnya mengelilingi L2 pada akhir September, teleskop akan menjalani fase komisioning selama 90 hari sebelum mengirimkan gambar ilmiah pertamanya pada awal 2027.
Roman dirancang untuk mensurvei langit sekitar seribu kali lebih cepat daripada Teleskop Luar Angkasa Hubble, menangkap gambar bidang luas yang memungkinkannya mengumpulkan sekitar 1,4 terabyte data per hari. Tujuan ilmiah utamanya mencakup menyelidiki sifat energi gelap dan materi gelap serta melakukan sensus luas sistem planet di luar tata surya kita. Para astronom menggambarkan teleskop ini, yang menggabungkan resolusi gambar setingkat Hubble dengan bidang pandang yang jauh lebih luas, siap menghasilkan salah satu peta alam semesta terbesar dan paling detail yang pernah disusun.
Key facts
- NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center
- It is traveling to the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, about a million miles from Earth, on a roughly month-long journey
- After a 90-day commissioning phase, first science images are expected in early 2027
- Roman will survey the sky about 1,000 times faster than Hubble, gathering 1.4 terabytes of data per day, to study dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets
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