Kennedy Space Center, LC-39A (Florida, United States)
Launch date:
30 August 2026 at 11:26:00 UTC
Status:
Unknown
Launch description
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket was set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission on Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 11:26 AM (UTC).
Missions
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope:
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launches NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center on a mission to a Sun-Earth L2 orbit. The payload is a wide-field infrared space observatory with a 2.4-meter telescope, Wide Field Instrument, and Coronagraph Technology Demonstration that surveys the cosmos to study dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets, and infrared astrophysics.