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SPHEREx
TelescopeSmall telescope behind three nested, cone-shaped shields that keep it cold without any coolant.
- Launch mass
- 502 kg
- Size
- 2.6 m × 3.2 m, span 3.2 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Ball Aerospace
- Designator
- 2025-047E
Image: NASA Kennedy Space Center / BAE Systems/Benjamin Fry · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 12 Mar 202503:10:12 UTC
- Active for
- 1 year 8 months
- Destinations
- Low Earth orbit
A NASA mission mapping the entire sky in 102 colours of near-infrared light, to study the origin of the Universe, the history of galaxies and the ices in star-forming clouds.
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Spacecraft
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Mission details from science.nasa.gov.