Launch vehicle: Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
Original purpose: intelligence satellite, transferred to the space agency in 2012.
Primary goals: investigate dark energy, dark matter, and search for exoplanets.
Operational plan: five‑year primary mission with potential for five additional years.
Placed at Lagrange Point Two, the telescope will create a detailed three‑dimensional map of billions of galaxies to study dark energy and dark matter.
It will also conduct a large survey for exoplanets, aiming to discover thousands of new worlds.
The mission builds on the capabilities of earlier observatories like the Hubble and James Webb telescopes.
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