NASA engineers completed the flight build of the WFI camera for the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. Delivering Hubble-grade resolution across a field of view 100x wider per exposure, it captures skies on…
🔭 NASA completed cryogenic thermal vacuum qualification of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope optical assembly, integrating its 300-megapixel WFI instrument.
: 300 Megapixels
: Infrared 0.5–2.0 µm
: 100x wider celestial footprint
: Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point (1.5M km)
NASA engineers completed the flight build of the WFI camera for the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope. Delivering Hubble-grade resolution across a field of view 100x wider per exposure, it captures skies on a 288 MP array.
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