The agency had planned to launch both missions at the same time on Saturday (March 8) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but SpaceX delayed the launch to complete vehicle checkouts. The next attempt, ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...

After more than a week of delays, two new NASA missions have gotten the greenlight to head to space tonight (March 8).

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on ...

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 ...

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 ...

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...

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

NASA’s second mission, known as the PUNCH project, involves four satellites about the size of a carry-on suitcase. Each of these will perform surveys on the solar wind emitted from the Sun.

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, ...