> 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 16 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 14 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?

	▲	WASDx 8 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.