The Roman Space Telescope’s primary structure is ready for the wire harness
that powers each system of instruments, gyroscopes,
data transfer and movement.
But the harness is nearly 1,000 pounds
and 45 miles of continuous wiring.
This acts as the central nervous system of the whole observatory
and, like our nerves is threaded through each major component,
making its transfer a delicate operation.
What we're doing today is we're taking
the flight harness off of the mockup
that was used to put it in that flight configuration,
and we're putting it on the harness transfer tool,
which will then be used to pick up the flight harness
and put it into the flight structure to then be put and mounted
on all the flight hardware and then eventually flown into space.
Each side
of the primary structure houses different systems,
each with redundant parts of wiring options.
Yes. So this is the telescope electronics.
And over here before this is before.
It's still being completed.
The system command data handling this is the kind of the brains of the spacecraft.
With the wiring in place and tested.
The team will continue installing all the components into the primary structure
over the course of the next year.