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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Falcon Heavy

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This page records Falcon Heavy | Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

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Launch success with telescope solar panels/sunshade deployed.

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Payload deployed.

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Launch Successful

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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA infrared space telescope with a 2.4 m (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and two scientific instruments. The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI) is a 300.8-megapixel multi-band visible and near-infrared camera, providing a sharpness of images comparable to that achieved by the Hubble Space Telescope over a 0.28 square degree field of view, 100 times larger than imaging cameras on the Hubble. The Coronagraphic Instrument (CGI) is a high-contrast, small field of view camera and spectrometer covering visible and near-infrared wavelengths using novel starlight-suppression technology. Roman objectives include a search for extra-solar planets using gravitational microlensing, and probing the expansion history of the Universe and the growth of cosmic structure, with the goal of measuring the effects of dark energy, the consistency of general relativity, and the curvature of spacetime.

Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
Mission type
Astrophysics
Destination orbit
Sun-Earth L2
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A
Provider
SpaceX
Recovery
Return to Launch Site, The Falcon Heavy side booster B1104 has landed back at the launch site at Landing Zone 40 after its 1st flight. +1

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Falcon Heavy
Launch vehicle

Falcon Heavy

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Height
70 m
Diameter
12.2 m
Stages
3
Recorded launches
13
First flight
2018-02-06
B1104
SpaceX
Strap-On Booster

B1104

Flight 1NewLanding successful
Recovery
Landing Zone 40
Landing method
Return to Launch Site
B1072
SpaceX
Strap-On Booster

B1072

Flight 3ReusedLanding successful
Recovery
Landing Zone 2
Landing method
Return to Launch Site
B1105
Core

B1105

Flight 1New
Recovery
Atlantic Ocean
Landing method
Expended

Recorded timing

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Target ·

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Cumulus Cloud Rule, Surface Electric Fields Rule

Flight timeline

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  1. T−00:53:00

    GO for Prop Load

  2. T−00:50:00

    Stage 1 Propellant Load

  3. T−00:45:00

    Stage 1 LOX Load

  4. T−00:35:00

    Stage 2 Propellant Load

  5. T−00:18:30

    Stage 2 LOX Load

  6. T−00:07:00

    Engine Chill

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  1. T−00:00:59

    Startup

  2. T−00:00:45

    GO for Launch

  3. T−00:00:20

    Tank Press

  4. T−00:00:06

    Ignition

  5. T+00:00:00

    Liftoff

  6. T+00:01:08

    Max-Q

  7. T+00:02:24

    SBECO

  8. T+00:02:27

    Boosters Separation

  9. T+00:02:32

    Boosters Flip

  10. T+00:02:43

    Boosters Boostback Burn Startup

  11. T+00:03:48

    Boosters Boostback Burn Shutdown

  12. T+00:03:51

    MECO

  13. T+00:03:54

    Stage 2 Separation

  14. T+00:04:00

    SES-1

  15. T+00:04:15

    Fairing Separation

  16. T+00:06:19

    Boosters Entry Burn Startup

  17. T+00:06:29

    Boosters Entry Burn Shutdown

  18. T+00:07:23

    Boosters Landing Burn

  19. T+00:07:40

    Boosters Landing

  20. T+00:08:28

    SECO-1

  21. T+00:24:33

    SES-2

  22. T+00:26:32

    SECO-2

  23. T+00:31:31

    Payload Separation

Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Launch site

DestinationSun-Earth L2

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