Status
SPHEREx & PUNCH
Launch Time
NET April, 2025
NET April, 2025
Rocket
Mission Details
SPHEREx
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.
Total Mass: 178.0 kg
Sun-Synchronous Orbit
PUNCH
PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind that fills the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites will work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock.
Payloads: 4
Sun-Synchronous Orbit