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3D PLUS has more than 220,000 microelectronics components in space, and more than 25 years of flight heritage with no reported failure. Our Flight Heritage is expanding continuously with products launched in Space every month in LEO, MEO and GEO orbits, for deep space exploration missions, for satellite constellation fleets, and for governmental missions in Europe, America, and Asia. Our Flagship missions include Mars 2020, Mars Science Laboratory, Rosetta, New Horizons, Juno, OneWeb, AlphaSat, Sentinel, Ariane 5, ISS, Parker Solar Probe, Insight, and many more.
Buc, France – Sept. 7, 2026 – NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched successfully on August 30, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. This flagship mission opens a new chapter in astronomy as Roman begins its three-month journey to the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2), approximately one million miles from Earth.
On behalf of 3D PLUS, we extend our sincere congratulations to NASA, the Goddard Space Flight Center, and every international team, engineer, and scientist whose dedication and perseverance made this mission possible. This achievement reflects human ingenuity and our shared drive to understand the cosmos.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is built to answer some of the most profound questions in astrophysics and cosmology, and each of its principal missions speaks to a different part of that ambition.
Roman will build the most detailed 3D map of the universe to date, surveying more than two billion galaxies to study how dark matter and dark energy influence cosmic expansion. For the first time, astronomers will have a dataset wide and deep enough to test whether the universe’s acceleration is driven by dark energy alone or by something our current models do not capture — a question that sits at the foundations of modern physics.
The telescope will also run one of the largest searches for exoplanets to date, expected to find thousands of new worlds and deliver the first statistical census of planetary systems similar to our own. Rather than individual discoveries, this survey will tell us how common Earth-like planets are and how planetary systems form — context that shapes every future search for life beyond our solar system.
Finally, with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble’s and survey speeds 1,000 times faster, Roman will capture panoramic infrared views, enabling the discovery of billions of galaxies, supernovas, and stars. These observations will let astronomers look back across cosmic time, watching how galaxies and the larger structures of the universe formed and evolved.
Together, these discoveries will deepen our understanding of the universe’s structure, the conditions for life beyond Earth, and the fundamental forces that shape cosmic evolution — insights that matter as much for science as for our sense of place in the universe.
For a telescope to deliver on such ambitions, the data it collects in deep space must be stored, protected, and transmitted without compromise. 3D PLUS contributed to Roman through its radiation-hardened memory and data handling solutions, designed to keep the telescope’s onboard systems reliable in the harsh environment of L2.
Several of our modules take on this role. Non-volatile memory solutions — NAND flash, MRAM, PROM and EEPROM — provide secure, radiation-tolerant storage and boot operations, ensuring the telescope can restart and recover reliably even after exposure to cosmic radiation. Our Reed Solomon IP adds error correction to data transmission, protecting the flow of information between the spacecraft and the ground against the corruption that radiation can cause.
For real-time processing and telemetry, our SDRAM and DDR2 deliver high-speed, radiation-hardened memory. The DDR2 Termination Regulator goes with DDR2 memory and ensure signal integrity for high speed processing , helping the memory subsystem stay stable under the demanding conditions of deep-space operation. Behind these components, our RIMC IP acts as the memory controller, coordinating data management so that the instruments can rely on consistent, well-managed access to memory throughout the mission.
These technologies are integral to Roman’s ability to collect, process, and transmit the vast amounts of scientific data that will reshape our understanding of the universe — work we, at 3D PLUS, are honored to support.
As Roman enters its operational phase, 3D PLUS remains committed to supporting NASA and the global scientific community with space-grade electronics built for the demands of deep-space missions. We look forward to the discoveries that will emerge from this mission and to continuing our partnership in the exploration of the cosmos.
Congratulations again to everyone involved in this historic achievement.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Key Mission Milestones. Image Credit: 3D PLUS
