Launching on a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, SPHEREx will map 450 million galaxies and could help unravel what happened after the Big Bang, while PUNCH will make ...

SpaceX is planning to launch NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory and PUNCH satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday, March 11. It is targeting Tuesday at 8:10 p.m. PT for Falcon 9’s launch ...

The SPHEREx and PUNCH spacecraft missions ... Meanwhile, SPHEREx is projected to separate from the Falcon 9 rocket roughly 42 minutes after liftoff. It will offer three opportunities for on ...

SPHEREx will explore the first second after the Big Bang, mapping the sky in infrared to uncover cosmic history and life’s essential building blocks. PUNCH will capture real-time images of the ...

With a deep rumble, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:10 p.m. Tuesday, carrying NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit.

SpaceX and NASA successfully launched two major missions to orbit in a liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday night.

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 ...

NASA's new space telescope, the SPHEREx observatory, will map the sky on a two-year course over Earth's poles, while four small satellites in the PUNCH mission will study the sun. "Falcon 9 lifts ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx ... called PUNCH is facing another delay. Both missions were expected to lift off together aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...

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 ...