SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions Written 12 March 2025
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SpaceX launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, March 11, from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 11:11 p.m. EDT. | Credit: NASA; YouTube; framegrab
The New York Times reports, “Two NASA missions launched from the California coast and soared toward the stars late Tuesday night, overcoming a week of delays to get to orbit. Both aim to unravel mysteries about the universe — one by peering far from Earth, the other by looking closer to home. The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. Accompanying the telescope is a suite of satellites known collectively as PUNCH, which will study the sun’s outer atmosphere and solar wind.”
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SpaceX launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions (Launch at 58:01 mark)
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