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In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the environment of space.

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

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SPHEREx team members showcased SPHEREx during the Explore JPL open house.

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The SPHEREx mission will create a 3D map of the entire sky. Its cutting-edge instruments require a custom-built chamber to make sure they’ll be ready to operate in space. After three years of design and construction, a monthlong boat ride across the Pacific Ocean, and a lift from a 30-ton crane, the customized test chamber for NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission has finally reached its destination...

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Dr. Chen Heinrich presenting a Hyperwall talk at the 240th American Astronomical Society Meeting in Pasadena, CA on June 15th 2022.

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NASA finalizes plans for its next cosmic mapmaker.

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The SPHEREx team releases a new video explaining how SPHEREx will explore Cosmic Origins.

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Live public talk on the SPHEREx and Euclid missions by Phil Korngut, SPHEREx Instrument Scientist, and Dida Markovic, Euclid mission team member.

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The SPHEREx team is making these files defining the instrument performance specifications publicly available to the community.

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Our birthday! The SPHEREx team celebrated the one-year anniversary of selection with three cakes decorated in honor of the three SPHEREx science themes. They were lovingly baked by Project Manager Allen Farrington. There was disagreement within the team as to which was was the most delicious. More data will have to be obtained.

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