NASA NEWS CONF ON SPHEREX MISSION, Jan 31, 2025, JPL, 12:00 pm ET

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, CA will hold a news conference on January 31, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET to discuss the upcoming launch of the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer — SPHEREx — mission. Watch live on NASA+, as well as JPL’s X and YouTube channels.

Participants are:

• Laurie Leshin, Director, NASA JPL
• Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• James Fanson, project manager, SPHEREx, NASA JPL
• Beth Fabinsky, deputy project manager, SPHEREx, NASA JPL
• Jamie Bock, principal investigator, SPHEREx, Caltech
• Cesar Marin, SPHEREx integration engineer, Launch Services Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

A “new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy,” SPHEREx is scheduled for launch No Earlier Than February 27, 2025 from Vandenberg on a Falcon 9 rocket.

NASA’s four-satellite PUNCH constellation will share the ride. NASA is holding a briefing on PUNCH on February 4.