The data, up to 1.4TB/day raw compressed, is planned to be fully open, every observation is public as soon as it is processed with no embargo. You can just download it and start looking for Rama or Oumuamua or plan your exoplanetary real estate empire or make a really big sandbox game. I at least want somebody to make me a cool screen saver.

You could easily be the first person to see a galaxy.

I wonder how much space exploration could be financed by auctioning off naming rights.

▲ ghgr 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> every observation is public as soon as it is processed with no embargo

That's a big deal. Do you have any source for that? (I couldn't find it in the ones you linked). This is great for humanity as a whole, but... poor grad students who now need to rush to publish their papers even sooner.

▲ delichon 17 hours ago | parent [-]

  Data from all of Roman’s surveys will be made public as soon as it is processed, with no periods of exclusive access.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/roman-space-telescope/nasas-ro...

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ghgr 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Thank you! From talking to a contact working with JWST, it sounds a bit trickier in practice. The data are public, but with Roman the idea is that you must process them on their computers rather than download everything locally, and you pay for the compute/storage you use.

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enriquto 15 hours ago | parent [-]

that's horrifying! what if you want to work on the processing algorithms themselves? can't you access the raw input data?

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WASDx 9 hours ago | parent [-]

If their platform allows any kind of processing as it sounds then anyone could just dump the data. So I don't see why they would not allow downloads for local processing.

	▲	fc417fc802 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Reading between the lines, I assume they aren't reasonably capable of serving up ~TB scale data to hundreds (thousands? more?) of separate clients per day. The usual fix for this would be something like an AWS requester pays bucket. To your question specifically, in such a scenario they would charge an obscene amount for the bandwidth so you would be strongly incentivized not to download hundreds of GB of data from them.

▲ Carrok 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

	▲	enahs-sf 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.