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Join a NASA expert on Wednesday, Feb 26 & Thursday, 27, 2025 to chat about the upcoming ride-sharing launch of SPHEREx and PUNCH missions!

Quick Summary:
* SPHEREx and PUNCH will be launching together from Vandenberg, California, as early as February 27, 2025.
* SPHEREx is a space telescope that will map the entire sky in 102 colors to study the origins of our universe, galaxies within it, and life’s key ingredients in our own galaxy.
* PUNCH will study the outer portion of the Sun, the corona, to understand how solar wind forms.

Interview Details:
* Taped interviews are available on Wednesday, Feb 26: Taped Interviews ONLY --> 6 am - 12 pm PST (9-3 pm EST)
* Live interviews are available Thursday, Feb 27: LIVE interviews ONLY--> 5 am - 12 pm PST (8 am - 3 pm EST)
* Click here to request an interview: https://forms.gle/kBZkx2RjuB1wbE6J9
* Requests sent via the above form will have scheduling priority.
* Please do not email requests.

Contributing new pieces to NASA's cosmic puzzle, the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions are cost-effectively launching together to analyze the cosmos and Sun, respectively.

NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory is SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer). The space telescope will observe hundreds of millions of galaxies near and far, mapping the entire sky in 102 wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye. This will help scientists answer major questions about why the universe looks the way it does, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water and other key ingredients for life in our galaxy. SPHEREx provides a big-picture view of the universe, complementing the work of more targeted telescopes like NASA’s Hubble and Webb.

Ride-sharing with SPHEREx is NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission. PUNCH will close a 60-year gap of knowledge about how the outer atmosphere of the Sun, the corona, becomes the solar wind. PUNCH will utilize four small satellites to provide the first-ever 3D global view of the Sun’s solar wind that gives rise to the magnificent northern and southern light shows called auroras.

Join a NASA expert to learn more about these two missions launching to space this week!

Suggested Anchor Intro:
Two missions, one launch, and one shared goal: understanding the bigger picture. Tomorrow/Today NASA will launch two separate missions on the same rocket, SPHEREx and PUNCH. SPHEREx will help us better understand the origins of our universe, while PUNCH will teach us more about the star that’s closest to home. Joining us now is NASA expert xxxx from the xxx mission.

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Jamie Bock answers the following questions:

1. What is SPHEREx?

2. What kinds of objects do you expect SPHEREx to see?

3. What makes SPHEREx unique?

4. Can you talk about the different wavelengths SPHEREx will see?

5. Can you talk about some of the science goals of SPHEREx?

6. Can you talk about some of the science goals of SPHEREx? (pt 2)

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Beth Fabinsky answers the following questions:

1. What is the SPHEREx mission?

2. What is an all-sky survey?

3. What does all sky mean?

4. What makes SPHEREx unique?

5. Why is an infrared wavelength important for an all-sky survey like this?

6. What types of objects will SPHEREx be able to see in its all-sky survey?

7. What are you most excited about with this mission?

8. What are you most excited about with this mission? (pt 2)

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The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.For more information visit science.nasa.gov/mission/punch || ", "release_date": "2025-02-04T10:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-03-07T11:44:03-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1141642, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014773/PUNCH_thumb.png", "filename": "PUNCH_thumb.png", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Music Credit: “Crafted with Science Instrumental” by Zak McNeil [ASCAP] via Universal Production MusicVideo Credit: NASA/Beth Anthony", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } }, { "id": 14771, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14771/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "PUNCH Instruments", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system. By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.Three of the PUNCH satellites will carry a Wide Field Imager (WFI), and the fourth will carry the Narrow Field Imager (NFI).The Narrow Field Imager (NFI)The Narrow Field Image (NFI) is a coronagraph, a type of device that blocks out the bright light from the Sun to better see details in the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. The coronagraph will have a similar field of view as the SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) C3 field, from 6 to 32 solar radii on the sky, and it will view the corona in both polarized and unpolarized light.Wide Field Imager (WFI)The Wide Field Imager (WFI) is a heliospheric imager, a device that provides views from 18 to 180 solar radii (45 degrees) away from the Sun in the sky. Heliospheric imagers use an artificial “horizon” and deep baffles to view the very faint outermost portion of the solar corona and the solar wind itself. The instrument reduces direct sunlight by over 16 orders of magnitude, which is like the ratio between the mass of a human and the mass of a cold virus. The wide-field imaging optics are based on the design of the famous Nagler eyepieces, which are known among observational astronomers for their clarity, low distortion, wide field, and achromatic focus. Three of the PUNCH spacecraft will carry a WFI instrument. || ", "release_date": "2025-01-24T14:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-02-11T10:08:04.490942-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1141548, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014771/NFI_LEO_Animation.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "NFI_LEO_Animation.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Animation depicting the PUNCH Narrow Field Imager, or NFI instrument, from low Earth orbit. The NFI is designed to capture high-resolution images of the Sun's corona.Credit: NASA’s Conceptual Image Lab/Kim Dongjae, Walt Feimer", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 14770, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14770/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Test Operations at Vandenberg Space Force Base", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "release_date": "2025-01-24T09:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-27T14:36:30.442291-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1141479, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014770/KSC-20250119-PH-ATR01_0349~orig_print.jpg", "filename": "KSC-20250119-PH-ATR01_0349~orig_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Technicians use an overheard crane to lift NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) spacecraft onto a work stand for testing operations at the Astrotech Processing Facility on Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025.Credit: USSF 30th Space Wing/Antonio Ram", "width": 1024, "height": 683, "pixels": 699392 } }, { "id": 14768, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14768/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "PUNCH Satellites Solar Array Deployment Test", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH mission, is a constellation of four small satellites in low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the Sun's corona to better understand how the mass and energy there becomes the solar wind that fills the solar system.By imaging the Sun’s corona and the solar wind together, scientists hope to better understand the entire inner heliosphere – Sun, solar wind, and Earth – as a single connected system.The PUNCH mission is led by Southwest Research Institute’s office in Boulder, Colorado. The mission is managed by the Explorers Program Office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. || ", "release_date": "2025-01-23T17:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-01-30T14:14:44.008289-05:00", "main_image": { "id": 1141422, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014700/a014768/KSC-20250121-PH-ANV01_0002~orig_print.jpg", "filename": "KSC-20250121-PH-ANV01_0002~orig_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Crews conduct a solar array deployment test on the spacecraft of NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) satellites at Astrotech Space Operations located on Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.Credit: USSF 30th Space Wing/Alex Valdez", "width": 1024, "height": 683, "pixels": 699392 } }, { "id": 20388, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20388/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "PUNCH Spacecraft Beauty Passes", "description": "NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is a constellation of four small satellites in Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit that will make global, 3D observations of the young solar wind, from the outermost solar atmosphere to the inner heliopshere. Images of unprecedented quality will help to close a 60-year gap in measurements of understanding of what occurs in this region of space. PUNCH will share a ride to space with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Re-ionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. The missions launched on March 11, 2025, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.Get the latest updates on NASA's PUNCH blog. || ", "release_date": "2023-12-05T14:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-08-22T11:26:05.819423-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1052261, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020388/H_0823_Punch_SunEnding_V01.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "H_0823_Punch_SunEnding_V01.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Conceptual AnimationA conceptual animation of the PUNCH spacecraft. Working together, the four suitcase-sized satellites will create a combined field of view and map the region where the Sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere, transitions to the solar wind (the constant outflow of material from the Sun),Credit: NASA's Conceptual Image Lab", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } }, { "id": 20363, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20363/", "page_type": "Animation", "title": "Animation: Heliosphere", "description": "The sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets to some three times the distance to Pluto before being impeded by the interstellar medium. This forms a giant bubble around the sun and its planets, known as the heliosphere. NASA studies the heliosphere to better understand the fundamental physics of the space surrounding us - which, in turn, provides information regarding space throughout the rest of the universe, as well as regarding what makes planets habitable.The solar wind is a gas of charged particles known as plasma, a state of matter governed by its own set physical laws just as the more common solids, liquids, and gases are. As the solar wind sweeps out into space, it creates a space environment filled with radiation as well as magnetic fields that trail all the way back to the sun. This space environment is augmented by interstellar cosmic rays and occasional concentrated clouds of solar material that burst off the sun, known as coronal mass ejections.This complex environment surrounds the planets and ultimately has a crucial effect on the formation, evolution, and destiny of planetary systems. For one thing, our heliosphere acts as a giant shield, protecting the planets from galactic cosmic radiation. Earth is additionally shielded by its own magnetic field, the magnetosphere, which protects us not only from solar and cosmic particle radiation but also from erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind. Planets without a shielding magnetic field, such as Mars and Venus, are exposed to such processes and have evolved differently.NASA's studies of the heliosphere include research into: how the solar wind behaves near Earth; what causes and sustains magnetic and electric fields around other planets; how does the heliosphere interact with the interstellar medium; what do the boundaries of the heliosphere look like; what is the origin and evolution of the solar wind and the interstellar cosmic rays; and what contributes to the habitability of exoplanets.The field is, therefore, intensely cross-disciplinary. Heliospheric research often works hand in hand with planetary scientists, astrophysicists, astrobiologists, and space weather researchers.NASA heliophysics missions contributing to heliospheric research are: the Advanced Composition Explorer; NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory, the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory; Voyager, and Wind. || ", "release_date": "2022-03-09T18:00:00-05:00", "update_date": "2025-06-23T00:18:39.136923-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 372595, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020300/a020363/H_0322_HeliopauseCycle_v01.00680_print.jpg", "filename": "H_0322_HeliopauseCycle_v01.00680_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "A conceptual animation showing the heliosphere — the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun’s magnetic field and envelops all the planets. 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