 He was part of the team that originated the WMAP mission and designed the spacecraft, and has worked on deciphering the data that it beams back from space.Spergel is playing a leading role in developing the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a multibillion-dollar space mission planned for launch in the mid-2020s.He
shared the 2010 Shaw Prize in astronomy with Charles L. Bennett and Lyman Alexander Page, Jr. for their work on WMAP.