Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

BAE Systems (formerly Ball Aerospace) built the telescope and the spacecraft bus. The science analysis of the SPHEREx data will be conducted by a team of scientists located at 10 institutions in ...

NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions will need to wait a little longer before heading to space. After delaying the launch of these missions five times — they were originally slated to take to the ...

A Falcon 9 lifted off from California with the SPHEREx near-infrared observatory, with the PUNCH heliophysics mission flying as a rideshare. During its mission, SPHEREx will complete surveys of ...

The spacecraft, SPHEREx and PUNCH, had been expected to launch on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday. By Katrina Miller Two NASA missions will have to wait longer for a launch aboard a single rocket.

The $488 million SPHEREx − short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer − is a megaphone-shaped observatory roughly the size of a ...

Once in orbit, the instrument known as SPHEREx will begin its complex hunt across hundreds of thousands of galaxies for signs of water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons while ...

"We've run into a lot of challenges along the way [that] have caused us some launch delays, but this team has pulled together and worked diligently to get us over that." After more than a week of ...

The future of space exploration looks to grow even brighter as the launch of NASA’s highly anticipated SPHEREx mission lies right on the horizon. The mission, set to launch the evening of March 7, ...

UPDATE Monday, March 3, 2025: NASA is now targeting an evening launch window for SPHEREx and PUNCH that opens ... blocks of life come from. Built by Ball Aerospace with a payload provided by ...