NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

NASA broadcast the launch of the Roman Space Telescope live on the social media platform of the US-based X company.

The telescope, named after NASA's first astronomer Nancy Grace Roman, was launched from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida at around 07.30 local time.

The $4.3 billion telescope, launched with the Falcon rocket belonging to space, aviation and artificial intelligence company SpaceX, is expected to reach its targeted location in more than 3 months.

NASA Science Mission Directorate Administrator Nicky Fox said in a statement that the telescope aims to "detect thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, and billions of galaxies and stars."

Fox noted that the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which has a field of view more than 100 times wider than NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, "will be able to see previously unseen places with its wide field of view."