Image: Roman Space Telescope’s spacecraft bus 03
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Description: While it may look small in this photo, the spacecraft bus for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is 13 feet (4 meters) wide by 6.5 feet (2 meters) tall and weighs in at 8,400 pounds (3,800 kilograms). In this photo, it rests atop an aluminum ring that will not be part of the observatory. The bundles of wires on top are part of more than 50 miles of cabling laced throughout the assembly to enable different parts of the observatory to communicate with each other.
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