NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month - NASA

3 min readJessica TaveauJul 21, 2026 MEDIA ADVISORYM26-053Goddard Space Flight Center

Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30.

NASA will stream this event live through a variety of platforms. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live.

Participants in the briefing, who will provide an overview of the mission and its status, include:

Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington