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

Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Accompanying SPHEREx on the Falcon 9 were four small satellites comprising NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer atmosphere ...

and NASA launches SPHEREx and PUNCH to study solar system and Universe’s beginnings. Rocket Lab Electron “It's Business Time” on the pad at LC-1. Rocket Lab USA, a Long Beach, Ca-based developer of ...

Packed alongside Spherex on its SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch was Punch, Nasa's $150 million (£116 million) Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere – a "constellation of four suitcase ...

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 ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey hundreds of millions of galaxies and "their combined cosmic glow" to give ...

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 ...