Narrow Field Imager (NFI) was launched into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as a part of NASA's Polarimeter to Unify ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The heliosphere, a cosmic bubble formed by the Sun, protects our solar system from interstellar threats and influences life's ...

Spherex (the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will survey ...

Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer ...

Currently at Vandenberg Space Force Base, the mission is awaiting launch on March 11, 2025 alongside another NASA mission, ...

Update by edhat staff March 12, 2025 On Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m., Falcon 9 launched NASA’s SPHEREx observatory and PUNCH satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ...

The PUNCH mission, or Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, consists of four small satellites designed to investigate the Sun's inner heliosphere. These satellites will provide ...

Prior to launch, the PUNCH spacecraft were attached to the gold-colored ESPA ring designed to deploy secondary payloads, below NASA’s SPHEREx observatory, to cost-effectively share a ride to space.

NASA is now targeting an evening launch window for PUNCH and SPHEREx that opens at 10:09 P.M. EST on Tuesday, March 4. On March 2, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the Polarimeter to ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...