🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Space Space is entering its consequence era. NASA moved the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to the SpaceX hangar on August 26 ahead of its targeted August 30 Falcon Heavy launch. Roman will combine Hubble class resolution with a field of view roughly 100 times larger, mapping dark matter, dark energy, galaxies, and thousands of planetary systems. Then Europe moves today. Ariane 6 is scheduled to launch MTG I2 on its first mission to geostationary transfer orbit. The satellite will scan Europe as frequently as every 2.5 minutes to improve severe weather detection. Space sovereignty increasingly means controlling your own access to orbit. NASA is also testing a problem that sounds mundane until humans actually live on the Moon. Dust. Rocket exhaust can blast lunar soil and rocks into nearby spacecraft, experiments, rovers, and future habitats. NASA has begun a new round of vacuum chamber tests designed to understand those effects before Artemis crew...