March 10 (UPI) --NASA and SpaceX late Monday said they were standing down the launch of the SPHEREx and PUNCH spacecraft missions due to unfavorable weather at the launch site and an issue with ...

Sending both SPHEREx and PUNCH up on a single rocket doubles the opportunities to do incredible science in space,” NASA Associate Administrator Nicky Fox of the Science Mission Directorate said ...

Image A solar array deployment test on one of the PUNCH satellites at Astrotech ... Alex Valdez/USSF 30th Space Wing/NASA Scientists will use data from SPHEREx to study how the total light emitted ...

After more than a week of delays, two new NASA missions have been cleared for liftoff tonight (March 8). The space agency's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, which are sharing a ride aboard the SpaceX ...

and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital ...

named SPHEREx, along with a suite of satellites called PUNCH.CreditCredit...SpaceX, via Associated Press By Katrina Miller Two NASA missions launched from the California coast and soared toward ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

Two NASA missions called "SPHEREx" and "PUNCH" could share a ride to space this evening (March 11) after multiple delays. The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on ...

NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to space. Both missions ...

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 ...

NASA is preparing to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions to uncover the universe's profound secrets. SPHEREx will utilize infrared detectors to collect cosmic light from hundreds of millions of ...

"It feels really great to have SPHEREx in space." NASA's SPHEREx (at center) and PUNCH (at left and right) spacecraft are seen after they were deployed separately into Earth orbit following their ...