NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments
DEC 12, 2024 - The Roman team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier, marking the completion of the Roman payload. Now the team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will begin joining the payload to the spacecraft.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Research and Support Participation Opportunity is to solicit proposals to work on preparation for the operational phase of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. There are two categories for the type of work being proposed: Wide Field Science, to prepare for and/or enhance the science returns of Roman/WFI, and the Coronagraph Community Participation Program, to work with the Coronagraph Instrument team to plan and execute its technology demonstration observations.
Each of the Core Community Surveys will provide data to many teams conducting a large number of diverse science investigations. Roman’s science objectives that will be addressed by the Core Community Surveys are Astrophysics with wide area near-IR surveys, Cosmology, and Exoplanet demographics.
The Coronagraph Community Participation Program (CPP) is planning and execute Coronagraph Instrument technology demonstration observations. The CPP is composed of multiple, competitively selected small, US-based teams, members of the Roman Project Team, and international partner teams from ESA, JAXA, CNES, and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. The primary goals of the CPP are to prepare simulation tools, target databases, and data reduction software for the execution of the Coronagraph Instrument technology demonstration. More information about the Coronagraph CPP
WFI Core Community Surveys
Each of the Core Community Surveys will provide data to many teams conducting a large number of diverse science investigations. Roman’s science objectives that will be addressed by the Core Community Surveys are Astrophysics with wide area near-IR surveys, Cosmology, and Exoplanet demographics. View the Core Community Survey Definition process
This interactive feature provides views of the telescope from various perspectives. Check the completion status, and discover exactly where the pieces are being built.
