NASA prepares the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for launch after the observatory arrives in Florida. Multiple outlets report the spacecraft is taken to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where it undergoes extensive prelaunch processing. According to Spaceflight Now, the observatory performs about 70 days of prelaunch activities at Kennedy before launch. The launch is planned for a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, with liftoff scheduled no earlier than August 30. Times of India similarly describes NASA preparing the telescope for a Florida launch from Kennedy Space Center ahead of an August timeframe.
The Roman Space Telescope is described as a major, high-cost NASA observatory, with Spaceflight Now citing an overall program cost of $4.3 billion. During the Kennedy period, the spacecraft completes processing steps required before it can be integrated and launched on the rocket. Details beyond the prelaunch processing timeline and the planned Falcon Heavy launch window are not specified in the provided excerpts.
