SPHEREx
SPHEREx is NASA's all-sky near-infrared survey observatory. After its March 2025 deployment into a roughly 650-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit, the spacecraft completed commissioning and began mapping hundreds of millions of galaxies and stars.
Identity
- Aliases
- SPHEREx Observatory
- Name
- SPHEREx
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- SPHEREx is NASA's all-sky near-infrared survey observatory. After its March 2025 deployment into a roughly 650-kilometer Sun-synchronous orbit, the spacecraft completed commissioning and began mapping hundreds of millions of galaxies and stars.
- Operator
- Vehicle Family
Links
- Official Url
- https://science.nasa.gov/mission/spherex/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 20, 2026 at 10:58:26 UTC
- Updated Time
- July 20, 2026 at 10:58:26 UTC
Other
- First Flight Date
- 2025-03-12
- Vehicle Code
- SPHEREx