{"id":171783,"date":"2023-09-11T11:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/wired-to-explore-nasas-45-mile-long-nervous-system-for-roman-space-telescope"},"modified":"2023-09-11T11:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:26:20","slug":"wired-to-explore-nasas-45-mile-long-nervous-system-for-roman-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/wired-to-explore-nasas-45-mile-long-nervous-system-for-roman-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"Wired To Explore: NASA\u2019s 45-Mile Long \u201cNervous System\u201d for Roman Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wired-to-explore-nasas-45-mile-long-nervous-system-for-roman-space-telescope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Roman Space Telescope team is integrating a complex electrical harness, crucial for the spacecraft\u2019s communication and power. After a detailed two-year construction and a preparatory \u201cbakeout\u201d process, assembly into the spacecraft is ongoing, with future installations planned for power components.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft\u2019s electrical cabling, or harness, which enables different parts of the observatory to communicate with one another. Additionally, the harness provides power and helps the central computer monitor the observatory\u2019s function via an array of sensors. This brings the mission a step closer to surveying billions of cosmic objects and untangling mysteries like <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/astronomy-astrophysics-101-dark-energy\/\">dark energy<\/a> following its launch by May 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman Space Telescope team is integrating a complex electrical harness, crucial for the spacecraft\u2019s communication and power. After a detailed two-year construction and a preparatory \u201cbakeout\u201d process, assembly into the spacecraft is ongoing, with future installations planned for power components. NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has begun integrating and testing the spacecraft\u2019s electrical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}