WFIRST, shown here in an artist's rendering, will carry a Wide Field Instrument to provide astronomers with Hubble-quality images covering large swaths of the sky, enabling several studies of cosmic evolution. Its Coronagraph Instrument will directly image exoplanets similar to those in our own solar system and make detailed measurements of the chemical makeup of their atmospheres.
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NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/CONCEPTUAL IMAGE LAB
NASA’s next flagship observatory, often described as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, is about to leave NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and head to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final launch preparations ahead of a planned launch as early as September aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
In an announcement on Monday, June1, NASA said that the recently completed Roman Space Telescope would travel aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge, with its eventual lift-off planned for Launch Complex 39A.
