and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the agency's SPHEREx ...

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 ...

SpaceX announced on the website X that the next launch opportunity would occur on Tuesday night at 11:10 p.m. Eastern time. The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will ...

March 12 (UPI) --NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, 24 hours after poor weather and a ...

Watch the launch in the player above. SpaceX launched the Spherex observatory from California, putting it on course to fly over Earth’s poles. Tagging along were four suitcase-size satellites to ...

transcript A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off from California carrying the telescope, named SPHEREx, along with a suite of satellites called PUNCH. 3, 2, 1, ignition. Liftoff of the Falcon 9.

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 has a backup opportunity at the same time on Wednesday (March 12) in case weather forces another delay. SPHEREx — which stands for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe ...

Originally set to launch Monday, the SpaceX rocket carrying a space telescope ... Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission -- or SPHEREx mission-- is expected to last about two years ...