Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s core elements have been installed onto the spacecraft bus — the observatory’s powerhouse that will transport it a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2.
This combination of the spacecraft bus with the Optical Telescope Assembly, Wide Field Instrument, and Coronagraph Instrument creates the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly, or SCIPA.
These components equip Roman to investigate the universe’s many mysteries, like dark energy's role in cosmic history, dark matter’s properties, and planets outside of our solar system.
Music credit: “Your Intensity of Spirit,” Jay Price [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Sophia Roberts (eMITS): Lead Producer, Editor
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The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s core elements have been installed onto the spacecraft bus — the observatory’s powerhouse that will transport it a million miles away to Lagrange Point 2.
This combination of the spacecraft bus with the Optical Telescope Assembly, Wide Field Instrument, and Coronagraph Instrument creates the Spacecraft Integrated Payload Assembly, or SCIPA.
These components equip Roman to investigate the universe’s many mysteries, like dark energy's role in cosmic history, dark matter’s properties, and planets outside of our solar system.
Music credit: “Your Intensity of Spirit,” Jay Price [PRS], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
Sophia Roberts (eMITS): Lead Producer, Editor
This video can be freely shared and downloaded at svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14777. While the video in its entirety can be shared without permission, the music and some individual imagery may have been obtained through permission and may not be excised or remixed in other products. Specific details on such imagery may be found here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14777. For more information on NASA’s media guidelines, visit nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/.
If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: youtube.com/NASAGoddard
Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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