Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be best tool yet to spot killer asteroids

* https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14942/

launch info

* https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/6983/

btw what's fascinating to me is that while JWST relies on ground-control to figure out where it is in space, the Roman telescope knows EXACTLY by using state-of-the-art great-great-grandchild of the system that was on the SR-71, using 18 guide-stars and gyroscopes, etc.

* https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20240010650

* https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/space/spacecraft/...

it's just so amazing, including a 500mbps downlink (JWST "only" has 28mbps) for 1.5TB per day