Infineon HiRel Power Semiconductors Support Successful Launch of NASA Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

Infineon Technologies AG radiation-hardened HiRel power devices are aboard the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking the successful launch of NASA’s next flagship space observatory. The Roman Space Telescope will travel to the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2), more than 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, the same orbital position as the James Webb Space Telescope, where stable gravitational conditions and an unobstructed view of a wide swath of the sky will support the mission’s scientific program. The Roman Space Telescope mission adds to Infineon’s space heritage that stretches back to the 1970s, during which the company supported hundreds of space missions including navigation satellites, the International Space Station, and NASA’s Artemis program, with rad-hard components that have traveled more than 20 billion kilometers from Earth.