India, March 12 -- After three postponements, NASA finally launched its two satellites to space with the dual mission to unravel cosmic and solar mysteries.
NASA's astrophysics observatory SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), is on its way to study the origins of the universe and the history of galaxies, and to search for the ingredients of life in galaxy.
SPHEREx lifted off at 8:10 p.m. PDT on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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 ...