Roman's Wide Field Instrument added to the Mirror Assembly
B-roll footage slowed from 60 frames per second and 30 frames per second of the Wide Field Instrument (WFI) installation.
Here technicians install the Wide Field Instrument into the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Instrument Carrier.
Using this instrument, each Roman image will capture a patch of the sky bigger than the apparent size of a full Moon. Hubble’s infrared images, taken with its Wide Field Camera 3, are about 200 times smaller. Even Hubble’s widest exposures, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, are nearly 100 times smaller. Over the first five years of observations, Roman will image over 50 times as much sky as Hubble covered in its first 30 years, surveying the sky up to 1,000 times faster than Hubble can while maintaining similar sensitivity and infrared resolution.
B-roll footage of the Wide Field Instrument installation taken from the upper level of the Goddard cleanroom.
Timelapse video of the Wide Field Instrument as it is installed into the Instrument Carrier.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Videographers
- Scott Wiessinger (eMITS)
- Rob Andreoli (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Editor
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, January 21, 2025.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM EST.