NASA SCIENCE OVERVIEW NEWS CONF FOR SPHEREX AND PUNCH, Feb 25, 2025, virtual, 2:00 pm ET

NASA will launch the SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) infrared space telescope and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) solar wind mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA on February 27, 2025 at 10:09 pm ET.  NASA+ coverage begins at 9:15 pm ET.

A news conference providing an overview of the two missions will take place on February 25, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET and will livestream on NASA+.  Participants are:

• Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• Nicholeen Viall, PUNCH Mission Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
• Rachel Akeson, SPHEREx science data center lead, Caltech/IPAC
• Phil Korngut, SPHEREx instrument scientist, Caltech

More information about the two missions is in NASA’s press release.