Published on: 2025-06-18 19:58:06
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 the Universe, and ultimately life, came to be. The mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:10 pm local time (11:10 pm EDT) Tuesday. Less than 45 minutes later, the Falcon 9's upper stage released SPHEREx into a polar orbit at an altitude of
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What just happened? NASA's latest observatory is preparing for a two-year mission to create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky. SPHEREx, which is short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that left Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:10 pm Pacific on March 11. Following a checkout period lasting one month, the observatory – which measures 8.5 feet tall, 10.5 feet across,
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NASA's SPHEREx observatory is now in space for a two year year mission to create a 3D map of the entire celestial sky. The telescope left the ground on top of a Falcon 9 rocket from a launch pad in California, four years after NASA announced that a SpaceX flight will launch the mission, along with NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) microsatellites. SPHEREx separated from SpaceX's vehicle at 12AM Eastern time on March 12 and will remain in low Earth orbit, where it wil
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A new NASA space observatory is scheduled to launch into orbit this week on a lofty mission to map more than 450 million galaxies. The SPHEREx mission (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will map the entire sky four times over two years, offering scientists a chance to study how galaxies form and evolve, and providing a window into how the universe came to be. NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoes testing at BAE Systems in Boul
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After a short delay, NASA is set to launch two missions this weekend, SPHEREx and PUNCH, that will map the cosmos and track the Sun’s influence on space. For NASA, it’s one down and one to go. Yesterday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, successfully lifting off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. And now it’s time for SPHEREx and PUNCH, which were originally expected to launch on Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The two missions, both encapsulated ins
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