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Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

A NASA space-telescope mission that, according to the supplied evidence, is scheduled to launch on August 30, 2026, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Scheduled Verified 2026-10-02

Overview

Identification and schedule

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is treated here as a mission whose subtype is a space telescope. The official wording used in the supplied NASA evidence is Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope; the shorter form Roman Space Telescope also appears in the title of an agency communication.

The available evidence comes from a NASA 2026 news-release page. In the provided extract, NASA invites media representatives to learn more about the telescope and states that it is scheduled to launch on Sunday, August 30, 2026. The same text places the launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Verified scope

The supplied material supports identifying this as a future mission within an upcoming-missions editorial scope and classifying its planning status as scheduled in the cited source. Its name identifies a space telescope, but the extract does not set out observing goals, targets or phenomena to be studied, instruments, orbit, mission architecture, or the launch system. This profile therefore does not assign further scientific or technical characteristics.

Uncertainty

The date and location recorded here are those communicated by NASA in the evidence provided; they are not a guarantee that execution will remain unchanged. Its status as a scheduled mission means that its timetable may be revised. The evidence also supplies neither a mission code nor a numeric identifier, and it does not establish an official program hierarchy to which the mission should be attached. Accordingly, this profile retains NASA's textual designation as the official identifier and leaves the higher-container field blank.

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Sources and references

  1. JPL Missions NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  2. Moon to Mars | NASA's Artemis Program NASA
  3. NASA Outlines Preliminary Artemis III Mission Plans - NASA NASA
  4. Missions NASA
  5. 2026 News Releases NASA
  6. ESA - Our Missions European Space Agency
  7. ARTEMIS II MISSION AVAILABILITY – APRIL 2026 NASA
  8. 2026 - NASA Science NASA
  9. NASA’s SunRISE Set to Launch in 2026 - NASA Science NASA
  10. Upcoming Events NASA
  11. ESA - Artemis II European Space Agency
  12. Upcoming Missions – LSP Education NASA
  13. NASA on Track for Future Missions with Initial Artemis II Assessments - NASA NASA

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