{"id":4891,"canonical_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/2026ce-aug-30--4891","name":"2026 CE, August 30","year":2026,"era":"CE","month":8,"day":30,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/2026ce-aug-30--4891","iso-date":"2026-08-30","precision":"year-month-day","description":"\u003cp\u003eNASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-dark-universe-seeking-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-launches/\"\u003elaunches\u003c/a\u003e on August 30th 2026 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA,\u0026nbsp; aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Its mission is to help astronomers explore dark matter, dark energy, and worlds outside of our solar system, known as exoplanets. The RST will orbit the Sun, not the Earth, like the James Webb Space Telescope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","additional_details":"\u003cp\u003eThe Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) has the same size main mirror as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) but sees 100 times more sky during each snapshot. The result is that RST can inspect more of the sky more quickly, likely allowing, among other capabilities, the discovery of many more supernovas which tell us more about the expansion rate and composition of our universe, and other planets orbiting other stars that tell us more about the possibilities for life elsewhere in the universe.\u003c/p\u003e","photo":"","created_at":"2026-09-01T09:44:31-07:00","updated_at":"2026-09-01T09:48:20-07:00","breadcrumbs":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"August History","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"August 30","item":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august-30"}]},"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Thing","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/2026ce-aug-30--4891#eventK365","name":"2026 CE, August 30","headline":"NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) launches on August 30th 2026 from... - 2026 CE","description":"NASA’s Dark Universe-Seeking Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (RST) launches on August 30th 2026 from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA,  aboard a SpaceX...","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/events/2026ce-aug-30--4891","additionalType":"HistoricalEvent","inLanguage":"en","datePublished":"2026-09-01T09:44:31-07:00","dateModified":"2026-09-01T09:48:20-07:00","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#organizationK365"},"temporalCoverage":"2026-08-30","isPartOf":[{"@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/#websiteK365"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august","name":"What Happened in August History"},{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://www.kudos365.com/today-in-history/august-30#pageK365","name":"What Happened on August 30"}]}}