NASA Selects SPHEREx As Its Next Medium-class Explorer Mission
We are excited and humbled to announce that NASA has selected SPHEREx as its next medium-class explorer mission, for launch in 2023! SPHEREx, the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer, is a unique all-sky spectroscopic mapping mission that will address all three science goals in NASA's Astrophysics Division:
1) probing the origin and destiny of our universe,
2) exploring whether planets around other stars could harbor life, and
3) exploring the origin and evolution of galaxies.
We can't wait to begin this new phase of the mission and see the amazing science SPHEREx will generate!
Recent News
SPHEREx Observatory Assembled
The SPHEREx observatory is now fully assembled and ready to enter its environmental test campaign.
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SPHEREx Observatory Starts Final Assembly
The final assembly of the SPHEREx observatory has began.
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Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos
Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.
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SPHEREx Releases Catalog of Targets for Ices Studies
The SPHEREx List of ICE Sources (SPLICEs), just published by a team led by CfA astronomers Matthew Ashby and Joseph Hora, presents a catalog of 8.9 million objects of interest for the upcoming SPHEREx Ices investigation.
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Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way
Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky.
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