contract to Teledyne Scientific and Imaging to provide the infrared detectors for the Wide-Field Instrument. On 30 November 2018, NASA announced it had awarded the contract for Optical Telescope Assembly to the Harris Corporation of Rochester, New York. See also References External links Roman page at Goddard Space Flight Center site Roman Science Data Center page at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) US$1.6 Billion Telescope Would Search Alien Planets and Probe Dark Energy – Space.com The WFIRST/AFTA astrophysics mission: bigger and better for exoplanets , Tom Greene 30 May 2014 16 March 2015 18 February 2016 Infrared telescopes Space telescopes Future spaceflights Proposed NASA space probes NASA programs Exoplanet search projects Goddard Space Flight Center 2026 in spaceflight Dark energy