NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions are set to launch on March 2, promising groundbreaking insights into the universe’s origins and the Sun’s dynamic outer layers.
SPHEREx will peer into the universe’s infancy, unlocking clues from the Big Bang, while PUNCH will trace the solar wind’s journey from the Sun’s corona. With a live-streamed launch and prelaunch briefing, space enthusiasts can witness history unfold.
SPHEREx & PUNCH Launch Date Shifted
NASA and SpaceX are now aiming to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions no earlier than Sunday, March 2. (Previously the launch was scheduled for February 28.) The updated schedule allows additional time for final rocket preparations before liftoff. The launch is set for 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The SPHEREx mission (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will investigate what occurred in the first second after the Big Bang and search for essential building blocks of life within our galaxy. Meanwhile, the PUNCH mission (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will study the Sun’s corona as it transitions into the solar wind.
A prelaunch news briefing is scheduled for Saturday, March 1, at 3:30 p.m. EST, with live coverage streaming on NASA+. Media representatives can attend in person or join via phone. Due to limited space, those attending in person should plan accordingly.
The SPHEREx and PUNCH live launch broadcast will begin at 9:15 p.m., Sunday, March 2, and stream live on NASA+.
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4 Comments
Let me tell you all a little secret. The real universe is even smaller than the Milky Way.
All the rest is fake and God did not create the universe.
Blinded by sin.
Futile effort. The TRUTH is Genesis 1:1 the money should spent on discovering more about God’s glorious creation not trying to figure the origin of the universe outside of God. Now that is something the smartest of the smart will NEVER FIGURE OUT.
And let me tell YOU poor deluded science-deniers that there is no god! How can anyone believe such nonsense? Religion was once the way we tried to understand our world, and our place in it, along with witchcraft, card reading and astrology. The gradual development of scientific knowledge, as our species evolved, has given us a new way to understand and it is ever changing, ever developing, ever evolving, ever revealing to us new truths, not just about THIS little world but about other galaxies, universes and a whole cosmos that the so-called Bible didn’t even envision! Proof of science is in the jet engine that enables us to travel the world and the electric that comes on at the turn of a switch! Show me the proof of god? Where is the evidence except in the minds and writings of wilfully deluded men? If you fear death – a natural process – and need to believe in something bigger than your little selves, believe in Science, which, born of the evolving brains of Humankind, has given us so much. Including the devices in which you are reading this!