SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launching NASA's Roman Space Telescope on Aug. 30: How to watch it live

NASA's next great space observatory is about to lift off, and you can watch it live.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday (Aug.

30) at 7:26 a.m.

EDT (1126 GMT).

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, beginning at 6:20 a.m.

EDT (1020 GMT).

You don't have to wait that long for a Roman fix, actually; there's stuff to watch on Saturday (Aug.

29) as well.

Here's a rundown of this weekend's Roman action.

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches NASA's Europa Clipper mission from Florida on Oct.

14, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) Saturday: Prelaunch briefings Things kick off at on Saturday at 9 a.m.

EDT (1300 GMT) with NASA's Roman Space Telescope mission science briefing.

This should be quite eventful, for Roman's science goals are ambitious; it will likely discover thousands of exoplanets , for example, and reveal intriguing new information about mysterious dark matter and dark energy .

Participants are: Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters Julie McEnery, Roman telescope senior project scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Vanessa Bailey, Roman Coronagraph Instrument scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Kristen McQuinn, Roman Science Operations Center lead, Space Telescope Science Institute Lee Armus, Roman Science Support Center lead, Caltech/IPAC Next up is the prelaunch press conference, which will discuss the mission's launch readiness.