{"id":196300,"date":"2024-09-17T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nasa-completes-spacecraft-to-transport-support-roman-space-telescope"},"modified":"2024-09-17T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:25:40","slug":"nasa-completes-spacecraft-to-transport-support-roman-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/nasa-completes-spacecraft-to-transport-support-roman-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"NASA Completes Spacecraft to Transport, Support Roman Space Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-completes-spacecraft-to-transport-support-roman-space-telescope.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the spacecraft is assembled, engineers will begin working to integrate the observatory\u2019s other major components, including the science instruments and the telescope itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey call it a spacecraft bus for a reason \u2014 it gets the telescope to where it needs to be in space,\u201d said Jackie Townsend, the Roman deputy project manager at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. \u201cBut it\u2019s really more like an RV because it has a whole assortment of functions that enable Roman to accomplish its scientific goals while out there too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spacecraft bus that will deliver NASA\u2019s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to its orbit and enable it to function once there is now complete after years of construction, installation, and testing. Now that the spacecraft is assembled, engineers will begin working to integrate the observatory\u2019s other major components, including the science instruments and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196300","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=196300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}