Called SPHEREx, and set for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base no sooner than Tuesday night, ...
The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...
The $488-million mission is set to map the sky in 102 colors of light, probing cosmic inflation, galactic ices, and the history of the universe’s first light.
This month, a new kind of space telescope is setting out on a ... While it doesn't observe as much of the infrared as the Webb telescope, SPHEREx can detect 102 distinct wavelengths across the ...