A Falcon Heavy launched NASA’s newest flagship telescope Aug. 30 on a mission to study the nature of the universe and discover thousands of exoplanets.

As NASA prepares to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this weekend, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Don Figer examines the telescope.

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches this weekend aboard Falcon Heavy on a mission to map billions of galaxies, hunt exoplanets and probe dark energy.