Live From the JPL Clean Room — Building NEO Surveyor + ASTHROS

Watch as components for two missions come together at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. On the left: The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor’s instrument enclosure has returned to JPL after successful environmental tests at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston earlier this year. An infrared space telescope, the mission is being built to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts — th...

NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions Launch From Vandenberg Space Force Base (Highlights)

Highlights from the March 11, 2025, launch of NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope, which will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies, mapping the entire sky in 102 wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye. The spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 8:10 p.m. PDT. SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer...

SPHEREx and PUNCH Pre-Launch News Conference

Watch NASA's prelaunch update for SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. The SPHEREx space telescope will survey the sky in optical and infrared light, gathering data on more than 450 million galaxies, and 100 million stars in our own galaxy. PUNCH will use four suitcase-sized satellites in low Earth orbit to observe the Sun, and tell us more about the space weather that can impact communications on Earth. The launch window opens at 10:09 p.m. EST (7:0...