A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Sphrex Space Telescope and Panch Solar Mission removed the Wandenberg Space Force Base, California from EST at 11:10 pm. The dual payload mission successfully reached the classroom, marking a major milestone for NASA’s ongoing space exploration efforts. The engineers and scientists involved in the campaigns expressed enthusiasm as the spacecraft started its journey in the nominated classes. The launch faced several delays due to unexpected failures, affecting several mission members, including the effect of wildfires in California.
Spherex: Mamping of the universe in infrared
According For NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, spectro-photometer for the history of the universe, Epoche of Reonization and ICES Explorer (Sphrex) are designed to survey the sky in infrared lights, allowing scientists to study more than 450 million galaxies and 100 million stars in Milky Way. The 8.5-foot tall telescope would map the sky in 102 infrared velvenices, which was earlier in astronomical research. Unlike James Web Space Telescope (JWST), which captures wide images of specific cosmic regions, spherex will create a map of a wide area of the entire sky in six months.
Nikki Fox of the Associate Administrator of the Directorate of Sciences Mission, Nici Fox of NASA described the mission on January 31 during a briefing “for the first time in the history of humanity to map the entire astronomical sky in 102 infrared colors”. The telescope is placed in a sun-synchronous pole orbit to intervene with the brightness of the Earth’s infection and maintain the optimal simultaneous conditions.
Panch: Solar wind check
AllegedlyAccording to NASA’s South -West Research Institute, the polemimeter has four small satellites to unite the corona and heliosfare (punch) missions designed to study the outer environment of the Sun and how it infections in the solar air. These observations will help scientists understand the effects of solar winds on Earth, especially in predicting space weather events that can affect satellite operations, power grids and GPS systems.
Craig Deforest, leading investigator of the Panch Mission, said on 4 February that “one tool looks close to the Sun, where it is bright, and the other looks away where it is unconscious,” ensures detailed comments of solar activity. The mission consists of a narrow-field imagers that will follow a constant solar eclipse, offering an unprecedented view of the sun’s corona.
Next stage for missions
Both Spherex and Punch will now enter their designated classes and undergo the initial system check. Spherex is expected to start its all-shy mapping within six months, while the punch will start its solar comments after the 90-day commissioning phase. Each mission is planned to last for at least two years, which contributes to the influence of valuable data and sun in the study of the universe.
