(ORDO NEWS) — NASA engineers have successfully completed all tests of the high-gain antenna that will be installed on the new Roman Space Telescope infrared telescope.
The newest space telescope Roman, which according to the plan should go into space in May 2027, is designed to observe large-scale structures of the Universe and study the influence of dark matter on galaxies.
Another task of Roman is to search for and obtain direct images of exoplanets.
Roman will be equipped with a 2.4-meter mirror and will receive two scientific instruments: a 288-megapixel camera that allows you to capture areas of the sky with an area of 0.28 square degrees (this is a hundred times the field of view of the Hubble telescope) and a coronograph, a device capable of cut off the light of a star, which allows you to directly study the satellites revolving around it.
Now the new telescope is under construction and testing of scientific instruments. One is the high gain antenna, which is made of a carbon composite material that can withstand significant temperature fluctuations. With a diameter of 1.7 meters, the mass of the antenna reflector is only 10.9 kilograms.
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