SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions

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.

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NASA launches SPHEREx and PUNCH to explore space and sun

Watch live as NASA launches the SPHEREx telescope and PUNCH mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to explore the universe and the sun. SPHEREx will create a 3D all-sky map of 450 million ...
NBC News - Mar. 10
SpaceX Scrubs Launch of NASA SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions

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The New York Times - Mar. 9
NASA’s SPHEREx, PUNCH missions launch on Falcon 9 rocket

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 ...
NBC News - 5d
Nasa’s new Spherex telescope lifts off to map cosmos in unprecedented detail

The $488m Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies evolved over billions of years. Nasa ’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit on Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before – a ...
The Guardian - 5d
How to Watch NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions Launch on a SpaceX Rocket

The postponement, driven primarily by thick clouds, was the second scrub of the flight since an issue with the rocket on Saturday night.
The New York Times - 6d
After several delays, NASA's SPHEREx launches in mission to map 450 million galaxies

A new NASA observatory launched into space Tuesday on a mission that could help scientists unravel what happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang.
NBC News - 5d
SpaceX rocket carrying NASA's newest space telescope launches from California

The $488 million Spherex mission aims to explain how galaxies formed and evolved over billions of years, and how the universe expanded so fast in its first moments.
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Breaking down NASA's SpaceX mission launch from Kennedy Space Center

NASA launched SpaceX's Crew-10 mission from the Kennedy Space Center. A Falcon-9 rocket is carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station where they will meet astronauts Suni Williams ...
CBS News - 2d
SpaceX Launches NASA’s Crew-10 Mission to the I.S.S.

After their flight was scrubbed on Wednesday, four astronauts successfully lifted off, which will allow two NASA astronauts to return to Earth after an unexpected extended stay in orbit.
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