Roman - The Next Big Telescope SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Will Launch

With the James Webb Space Telescope now fully operational at L2, let’s take a moment to look ahead to NASA’s next space telescope — the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — with astrophysicist Dr. Jonathan McDowell.

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[NASASpaceflight]

UPDATE: SpaceX has just been awarded the launch contract for this mission. It will launch on Falcon Heavy.

[drds]

This is fantastic. I was not expecting y'all to do a video on JWST. It's great to see you expanding the space topics you cover!

[joshwright]

Another high quality video. You guys are killing it!

[brown]

Dr. Jonathan McDowell rocks! Really enjoyed that last interview with him.
Hope I didn’t miss another interview.

[rchilton]

Another killer video. NSF is my favorite tv network 👍

[Thihercooley]

This was well done!!! Thank you for doing interviews and videos like this!!

[lewismassie]

Jonathan McDowell is a really awesome guy, great to see him here

[cruiserchrisworldnetwork]

Congratulations to the team at NASA space flight for producing such a wonderful video and congratulations to SpaceX for being awarded the contract to fly the Nancy Grace Roman telescope

[JohnSmith-mkhz]

SpaceX Starship can launch WAY larger and heavier payloads than any rocket before it could. A space telescope MUCH bigger than JWST would be easy for Starship. And without the need for as much potentially mission ending folding and other trickery used to save space.

[dylanm.]

Luvoir A looks absolutely incredible. I'd love to see what kind of images that monster would take.

[blaineallen]

Please make more stuff like this. This is awesome work!

[RogerSanit]

Thanks for this fascinating update on what comes after Webb.

[corrinastanley]

Very interesting interview, I hope you can release the whole hour conversation at a later date. Thanks.

[smacksman]

Excellent. Pausing allowed me to digest the graphics in detail without slowing the video.

[marcheld]

I didn’t know about this telescope until now. Thanks for keeping us informed. Very interesting.

[habakucktibatog]

i cant help me... i just really really like the voice of Ian. I could listen to it for hours

[fredericvadez]

Ian, didn't you use 'dark energy' instead of 'dark matter' ?
Dark matter is a theory for explaining gravitational effects exceeding the visible mass of galaxies.
Dark energy is a theory explaining why the expansion speed of universe seems to increase with time.

[someguy]

Absolutely amazing videos. Incredibly detailled and well explained. Good job nerds.

[prlitomm]

Fun y I was thinking of this very topic.. thanks for covering this!

[gregsulman]

Fascinating and unexpected. Keep up the grat work guys.