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We’ve got our shades on for summer 😎☀️⁣ NASA technicians recently installed our Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s solar array Sun shield — the set of solar panels that will travel with Roman a million miles away into space! These panels will power the entire observatory and help keep the instruments cool by shading them from sunlight.⁣ ⁣ Together with Roman’s visor-like sunshade and outer barrel assembly — which will house the telescope and instruments — the solar array Sun shield will soon undergo testing to ensure a successful launch.⁣ The team is on track to connect Roman’s two halves in November, resulting in a complete observatory by the end of the year. Roman remains on schedule for launch by May 2027, with the team aiming for as early as fall 2026.⁣ ⁣ Once in space, Roman’s large, crisp view will unveil more than 100,000 distant worlds, 100 million stars, more than a billion galaxies, and countless other cosmic objects, gathering clues to mysteries like dark energy and dark matter. We stand poised at the brink of unfathomable scientific discovery.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA/Sophia Roberts⁣ Music: “Turbulent Grace,” Tom Samson [PRS], Nick Reeves [PRS], and Graham Harding [PRS], Universal Production Music⁣ ⁣ Video description is in the comments. #nasa #nasaroman #space #universe #telescope

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