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.
Very cool that they compliment each other and can work together. Areas of interest detected by Roman’s wide field capabilities can be tasked to JWST for higher resolution follow up.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 5.9 ms ] thread* 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