SPHEREx - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Launch Date: No Earlier Than February 27, 2025. The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic ...
NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025
2024年12月9日 · NASA and SpaceX are targeting late February 2025 for the launch of the agency’s next astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx. Short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer, SPHEREx will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
SPHEREx Press Kit - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
The mission is targeting a late-February 2025 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SPHEREx is managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California for NASA’s Astrophysics Division within the Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
A New NASA Space Telescope, SPHEREx, Is Moving Ahead
2021年1月5日 · Managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, SPHEREx is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 2024 and no later than April 2025. Its instruments will detect near-infrared light, or wavelengths several times …
Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic …
2024年10月31日 · NASA’s SPHEREx mission won’t be the first space telescope to observe hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies when it launches no later than April 2025, but it will be the first to observe them in 102 colors.
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for SPHEREx Astrophysics …
2021年2月4日 · The SPHEREx mission currently is targeted to launch as early as June 2024 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. NASA’s Launch Services Program at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will manage the SpaceX launch service.
JPL Science: SPHEREx
SPHEREx, a mission selected by NASA as the next Medium Explorer (MIDEX) in February 2019, with a planned launch in 2024, is an all-sky survey satellite designed to address all three science goals in NASA's Astrophysics Division, with a single instrument, a wide-field spectral imager.We will probe the physics of inflation by measuring non ...
NASA Finalizes Plans for Its Next Cosmic Mapmaker
2022年3月24日 · Scheduled to launch no later than April 2025, it will probe what happened within the first second after the big bang, how galaxies form and evolve, and the prevalence of molecules critical to the formation of life, like water, locked away as ice in our galaxy.
NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch
2025年1月27日 · Launch is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27. The news conference will be hosted at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Watch live on NASA+ , as well as JPL’s X and YouTube channels.
SPHEREx Undergoes Acoustic Testing - NASA Jet Propulsion …
2025年1月23日 · NASA's SPHEREx observatory is installed in the Fiesta Area at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in July 2024. The observatory is surrounded by speaker stacks used to perform acoustics testing, which subjects the spacecraft to the acoustics loads that it will experience during launch.