Update on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

From The Silicon Graybeard It's hard not to talk about the NGRST launch

So the telescope launched successfully on Sunday.

I started this off saying that it's easy to get used to how smoothly and flawlessly these missions are tending to go these days. That's leaving out that part of that "smoothly and flawlessly" is things like landing the boosters back on the Cape, and that has been at industrial scale for only a few years. It's so easy to take success like that for granted.

There are some highlights from SpaceX below. The entire SpaceX video (just shy of 2 hours) is at this link.

Falcon Heavy launches @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from pad 39A in Florida, beginning its more than three-month journey to its destination where it will generate never-before-seen photos of the universe pic.twitter.com/L3gHrBiQ08

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 30, 2026

Falcon Heavy's two side boosters land at LZ-2 and LZ-40 pic.twitter.com/j4XAR6rGZq

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 31, 2026