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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently blasted the observatory with extreme sound, shook it, and listened to its electronic hum. Roman passed all three assessments, which aimed to confirm that the observatory will withstand launch conditions and function as expected in space. The achievement keeps the mission on track for launch as early as this fall.
"All of the testing went smoothly and progress is well ahead of schedule," said Jack Marshall, the Roman observatory integration and testing lead at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The team has done a great job putting the observatory together, and the tests show that everything is lining up with expectations."
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