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 ...

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 ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, has successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, setting off on a groundbreaking mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. The ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ...

Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer ...

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 ...