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NASA Eyes Launching SPHEREx Sky-Mapping Mission in Early 2025
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.
Back in the Clean Room for Final Testing!
SPHEREx Observatory is back in the BAE cleanroom for final cleaning, testing and closeouts prior to shipment to the launch site.
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Why NASA’s SPHEREx Mission Will Make ‘Most Colorful’ Cosmic Map Ever
The space telescope will detect over 100 colors from hundreds of millions of stars and galaxies. Here’s what astronomers will do with all that color.
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SPHEREx Successfully Passes Vibe Test
SPHEREx observatory continues its thorough testing campaign and successfully passed its vibe test at BAE Systems in Boulder, CO.
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SPHEREx Observatory Continues its Testing Campaign with Acoustic Test
SPHEREx observatory continues its thorough testing campaign and successfully passes its acoustic test.
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SPHEREx Observatory Ready for Major Thermal Vacuum Test
SPHEREx observatory is now installed in the Titan Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) test Chamber at BAE Systems in Boulder, CO.
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SPHEREx Observatory Assembled
The SPHEREx observatory is now fully assembled and ready to enter its environmental test campaign.
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SPHEREx Observatory Starts Final Assembly
The final assembly of the SPHEREx observatory has began.
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Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos
Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.
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SPHEREx Releases Catalog of Targets for Ices Studies
The SPHEREx List of ICE Sources (SPLICEs), just published by a team led by CfA astronomers Matthew Ashby and Joseph Hora, presents a catalog of 8.9 million objects of interest for the upcoming SPHEREx Ices investigation.
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