NASA dips into futuristic AR tech to build powerful Roman Space Telescope

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A chemist turned science writer, Victoria Corless completed her Ph.D. in organic synthesis at the University of Toronto and, ever the cliché, realized lab work was not something she wanted to do for the rest of her days.

Engineers wearing augmented reality headsets test the placement of a scaffolding design before it is built to ensure accurate fit in the largest clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.team has already started applying the technology while working on the next-gen observatory — its next major eye on the sky after thein Greenbelt, Maryland, and the agency said AR has already saved days' worth of work.

"We've been able to place sensors, mounting interfaces, and other spacecraft hardware in 3D space faster and more accurately than previous techniques," said Ron Glenn, a NASA Goddard engineer, in aNASA's Roman Space Telescope will hunt for the universe's 1st stars — or their shredded corpses, anyway

 

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