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Ground System for NASA's Roman Space Telescope Moves Into Development

Release date: Thursday, July 29, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT

STScI Will Host Roman's Science Operations Center and Data Archive

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has just successfully completed the critical design review of the mission's ground systems, which are spread over multiple institutions including the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; and Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. STScI will host the Science Operations Center while Goddard will provide the Mission Operations Center and Caltech/IPAC will house the Science Support Center. The passing of the critical design review means the plan for science operations has met all of the design, schedule, and budget requirements. The mission will now proceed to the next phase: building and testing the newly designed systems that will enable planning and scheduling of Roman observations and managing the resulting data, which will amount to over 20 petabytes (20,000,000 GB) within the first five years of operations.

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