NASA, SpaceX -Update start date for Spherex, Punch Missions -Nasas Spherex mission

The NASA and SpaceX do not aim at the start of the agency in the earlier than Thursday, March 6, for the start of the Spherex and Punch missions. The additional time enables the teams to complete the vehicle processing and preliminary cash register.

The start window is opened at 10:09 p.m. EST (7:09 p.m. PST) from the space start complex 4 EAST (SLC-4E) on the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The spherex missometer (spectro photometer for the history of the universe, the era of rice ionization and the ICES Explorer) will improve our understanding of what happened in the first second after the big bang and has been looking for important ingredients for life in our galaxy. The punch mission (polarimeter for the standardization of the corona and heliosphle) will observe the corona of the sun at the transition to the sun wind.

The Prelaunch News Briefing Now is planned live on NASA+on Wednesday, March 5, at 3:30 p.m. with reporting. Media can ask questions by phone. For the dial-in number and the pass code, the media should contact Kennedy Newsroom at the latest one hour before the start of the event at kSc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.

The Spherex and Punch Live start broadcast begins at 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 6th, and stream live at NASA+.

Visit the NASA website for more information about Spherex and Punch.