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Grace

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Earth ObservationLEOCOSPAR 2021-059AULaunched 6/30/2021
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Mission & Launch
Launch Mission
Transporter-2
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5
Launch Date
6/30/2021
Last Contact
10/22/2023
Orbit & Mass
Orbit Class
LEO
Altitude
529.5 km
Inclination
97.52 deg
Orbit Plane
1
Dry Mass
37 kg
Total Mass
44 kg
Payload Classification
Mission Type
Earth Observation
Payload Category
IMG
Payload Class
B
Organizations
Operator
Satellogic
Manufacturer
Satellogic
Constellation
Name
Satellogic Aleph
Active Satellites
19
Planned Satellites
300
Registry
COSPAR ID
2021-059AU
UN Registration
ST/SG/SER.E/1147
Track
Mentions
117
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The forthcoming NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch by May 2027 and will study a smaller section of sky than Euclid while providing higher-resolution images of millions of galaxies.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.6Jul 4, 2023SpaceX launches ESA and NASA’s Euclid on a mission to shed light on dark energy
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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, planned for launch in 2027, will perform dark energy studies similar to Euclid and is expected to be complementary to Euclid’s observations.

PlanCapabilityGeneralValue 4.0Jul 1, 2023Falcon 9 launches ESA’s Euclid space telescope

NASA renamed the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in 2020.

GeneralGovernanceValue 3.0Apr 3, 2023NASA policy discourages naming missions after individuals

Northrop Grumman’s SSIRU will be carried aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in May 2027 and will observe explosions caused by the collisions of dense, massive stars.

RelationshipsPlanGeneralValue 4.6Dec 22, 2022Northrop Grumman Space Navigation Systems achieves 65 million hours and keeps on going

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was anticipated to launch by mid-2027.

PlanValue 4.0Dec 5, 2022Ball Aerospace integrates the opto-mechanical assembly for the Roman Space Telescope

NASA plans the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survey mission around 2027.

PlanValue 4.0Aug 2, 2022China prepares for launch of second space station module

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission is currently targeted to launch in October 2026 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

PlanValue 4.0Jul 19, 2022NASA has awarded the Launch Services Contract for the Roman Space Telescope to SpaceX

NASA awarded a NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, California to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission.

RelationshipsValue 5.0Jul 19, 2022NASA has awarded the Launch Services Contract for the Roman Space Telescope to SpaceX

The total cost for NASA to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is approximately $255 million, which includes the launch service and other mission-related costs.

FinancialGeneralValue 4.3Jul 19, 2022NASA has awarded the Launch Services Contract for the Roman Space Telescope to SpaceX

NASA selected SpaceX on 2022-07-19 to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy in 2026-10-01 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

RelationshipsPlanValue 5.0Jul 19, 2022NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch Roman Space Telescope

NASA plans the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope survey mission around 2027.

PlanValue 4.0Jul 14, 2022China prepares for July 24 launch of second space station module

Ball Aerospace is partnering with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center to develop the Wide Field Instrument for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

RelationshipsCapabilityValue 4.5Jul 12, 2022Ball Aerospace celebrates JWST’s first images + the success of the company’s mirror segments + more…

Dylan Taylor will donate an amount equal to what he paid for his NS-19 flight to organizations including Space for Humanity, AstroAccess, Edesia Nutrition, and the Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith Fellowships under a "buy one, give one" initiative.

RelationshipsFinancialValue 4.2Dec 11, 2021Blue Origin launches first six-person New Shepard suborbital flight

Patti Grace Smith established the FAA commercial astronaut wings initiative in 2004 when she was FAA associate administrator for commercial space transportation.

GovernanceLegalValue 3.0Dec 10, 2021FAA to end commercial astronaut wings program

The decadal survey identified probe-class missions as helping to fill the observational gap between the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2027, and the large space telescope projected for no earlier than the early 2040s.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Nov 4, 2021Astrophysics decadal survey recommends a program of flagship space telescopes

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope reported $3,000,000 in COVID-19-related costs in fiscal year 2020 and estimates nearly $400,000,000 in additional pandemic impacts in future years.

FinancialGeneralValue 4.0Mar 31, 2021Pandemic to cost NASA up to $3 billion

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has a lifecycle cost of $3,900,000,000.

FinancialValue 4.2Mar 31, 2021Pandemic to cost NASA up to $3 billion

NASA projects the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch date will likely move from late 2025 to mid-2026 because of pandemic-related delays.

PlanValue 4.0Mar 18, 2021JWST moving towards October launch

NASA is measuring Earth’s gravity field with the twin-satellite Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission launched in 2018.

GeneralCapabilityPlanValue 4.0Mar 3, 2021Australian startup develops quantum sensors for space applications

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope passed a confirmation review earlier in 2020 that set its cost through launch, by 2026, at $3,200,000,000.

FinancialPlanValue 4.6Sep 24, 2020Pandemic may delay several NASA astrophysics missions