NASA Launches New Space Telescope and Suite of Solar Satellites
SPHEREx and PUNCH lifted off from the Vandenburg Space Force Base at 11:11 PM ET on Tuesday. SPHEREx is a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky in more than a hundred colors that are invisible to the human eye. PUNCH is a suite of satellites that will study the Sun's outer atmosphere and solar wind. This article gets into the specifics of what the missions aim to do.