Roman Wide Field Instrument installation (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Roman Wide Field Instrument installation

Caption

Technicians install the primary instrument for NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, called the Wide Field Instrument (at left), in the biggest clean room at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. This marked the final step to complete the Roman payload, which also includes a Coronagraph instrument and the Optical Telescope Assembly.

Credit

NASA/Chris Gunn

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