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3 weeks ago | 
nasa.gov | Jason Costa
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1 month ago | 
nasa.gov | Jason Costa
Pam Underwood is the Deputy Director of the Spaceport Integration and Services (SI) organization at the NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She is responsible for working with the Director to ensure safe, efficient, and effective infrastructure and support services for NASA KSC, its workforce, and its government and commercial customers.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission controllers on Earth have received full acquisition of signal from the observatory, indicating the spacecraft is functioning nominally and is power positive.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
Deployment of the PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission’s four satellites has occurred. Following a 90-day commissioning period, the PUNCH mission is scheduled to conduct science for at least two years.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory has separated from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, on its way to begin its science mission from a sun-synchronous orbit about 404 miles (650 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. In about 10 minutes, deployment of the PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission’s four satellites will begin.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
After launching NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites, a first stage booster lands at Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Landing Zone 4 in California. Photo credit: NASA+The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage has successfully landed at Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Landing Zone 4 in California.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines have finished their burn, and the first stage has separated from the rocket. As the second stage continues carrying SPHEREx and PUNCH to orbit, the rocket’s first stage will attempt a controlled landing at Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Landing Zone 4.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
Ignition, and liftoff! At 11:10 p.m. EDT (8:10 p.m. PDT), SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4 East, carrying NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) missions. Stay here on the blog as we take you through some key flight milestones, coming up in the next couple of minutes.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
NASA Launch Manager Dr. Denton Gibson has just given the final “go” for launch of NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites!The spacecraft is on internal power and configured for launch.
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1 month ago | 
blogs.nasa.gov | Jason Costa
With launch just under 10 minutes away, let’s take a closer look at some important numbers for NASA’s newest space observatory, SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), which will help answer big questions about the early universe, the history of galaxies, and the life-sustaining molecules in planet-forming regions of the Milky Way.
