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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched at 11:10 p.m. EST from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. carrying ...

NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to explore the universe and solar activity.

SpaceX successfully launched two NASA missions, SPHEREx and PUNCH, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base ...

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Riding with SPHEREx aboard the Falcon 9 were four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, which will study how the Sun's outer ...

NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to ...