SPHEREx Not Selected as a NASA SMEX
We are disappointed not to have been selected as a NASA SMEX this round. NASA chose the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a mission led by Marshall Space Flight Center. We wish them the very best of luck.
Recent News
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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Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky.
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