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Patrick Lawrence

Scientist involved with NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, appearing as a guest on the science podcast Blue Dot alongside Roman Coronagraph scientist Bertrand Mennesson.

Oct 30, 2026

16:39
And JAXA?
16:40
JAXA is the Japanese Space Agency.
16:43
JAXA, or Japan, has an observatory as well, a radio network that can bring down the data.
16:50
And they're all big, large radio dishes, about 34 meters across, and they can bring down the data.
16:57
And then the interesting thing, as you mentioned, the Roman data is extremely large because you do have 18 different detectors every time you take an observation.
17:08
And so all the data is being put into the cloud, right? And we're actually processing and reducing all the data in the cloud itself.
17:20
And the data will be stored in the cloud for people to access through the archive.
19:37
Let's start out with dark energy, because for people who don't really know, maybe briefly explain how Hubble observations previously sparked this interest in some things going on out there that we now refer to as dark energy.

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