These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

SPHEREx launched atop a Falcon 9 in March, sharing its ride with the four spacecraft of NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission. With the PUNCH satellites also ...

This is essential for SPHEREx to keep its telescope shielded from the sun’s light and heat, which would inhibit its observations, and for PUNCH to have a clear view in all directions around ...

This is essential for SPHEREx to keep its telescope shielded from the sun’s light and heat, which would inhibit its observations, and for PUNCH to have a clear view in all directions around the sun, ...

The two missions, called SphereX and Punch, were launched at the same time so NASA could use its resources more efficiently. Stormtracker 16 Meteorologist Jeremy Lewan interviewed NASA scientist ...

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agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches.

March 21 (UPI) --SpaceX has set a rocket re-use record for launch-turnaround by sending a Falcon 9 up twice within nine days early Friday morning. The previous record was 14 days. The rocket ...

The four satellites are part of NASA's PUNCH mission. SPHEREx and PUNCH are part of NASA's Explorers program, a series of cost-capped science missions with a lineage going back to the dawn of the ...

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.

Philosophically, these questions are existential. SPHEREx will try to punch above its weight. Built by BAE Systems, SPHEREx is about the size of a subcompact car, and it lacks the power and ...