SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...

This first light, as it's called, shows that all of the spacecraft's systems are working just as expected. "Based on the ...

Bad weather had forced NASA to postpone the launch of the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions from Space Launch Complex at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to Monday. NASA said it is standing down ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - “Two missions, one launch, one shared goal.” This is NASA’s statement as their latest space expedition begins. Jennifer Rocca, a project systems engineer for NASA SPHEREx, said ...

Welcome to Edition 7.36 of the Rocket Report! Well, after nine months, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are ...

SpaceX will set a new rocket-reuse record early Friday morning (March 21) when it launches a batch of spy satellites for the ...

One of those missions centers on a new space telescope called SPHEREx—no relation to SpaceX ... Tagging along on the same flight was NASA’s PUNCH, short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ...

SpaceX has successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope and the PUNCH solar mission. The launch took place on March 11, 2025, marking another significant ...

SPHEREx, along with the PUNCH solar probes, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 11, and within hours, ground controllers at NASA’s ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to space. Both missions ...

Days after SpaceX blew up one of its big Starship spacecrafts, the company helped launch two rather important science missions namely SPHEREx and PUNCH for NASA. Our focus today is on SPHEREx but ...

Perched atop that rocket were two new NASA missions — one to study the origins of the solar wind, named PUNCH, and another to help unlock the very secrets of the cosmos, called SPHEREx. The ...