NASA has chosen SpaceX to give launch services for its upcoming two-year astrophysics mission said to kick off on June 2024. The mission’s goal is to “survey the sky in the near-infrared light,” which could possibly give answers to how the universe came into existence and the development of galaxies.
SPHEREx will also search for water and organic molecules in areas where stars are created from gas and dust, “as well as disks around stars where new planets could be forming,” NASA says.
The mission, which costs around $98.8 million to launch, will take off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and will allow astronomers to collect data on more than 300 million galaxies, and more than 100 million stars.
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