Closeup of the Roman telescope bus. A white metal structure holds a metal cylindrical ring with ridges. Behind this is the six-sided telescope bus structure. It is covered in shiny, metallic kapton, and has several smaller red boxes are connected by wires.

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   Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 20:30:58 JST Kelly Lepo

   I went on a tour of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center today with a group of students. The highlight was seeing (parts of) the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope being tested in the massive clean room.

   From left to right, we see the spacecraft bus (where the computers, communications equipment, and propellent are housed), spare solar panels, and the coronagraph instrument (under the silver tent thing, near the wall of air filters).