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NASA’s New $4.3 Billion, 300MP Space Telescope Passed its First Tests One Million Miles Away

NASA’s New $4.3 Billion, 300MP Space Telescope Passed its First Tests One Million Miles Away

A composite image showing a grid of 20 small, dark-field microscopy panels, with one panel magnified to reveal individual circular structures containing geometric patterns.

NASA's new 300-megapixel telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, 2026. NASA says Roman's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) has been woken up to begin testing procedures one million miles away from Earth at the second Lagrange point, better known as L2.

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