12 March 2025 year Fr. 03:10 (UTC) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, USA, using a launch vehicle «Falcon 9 Block 5» a launch was made 5 KA US mission «SPHEREx & PUNCH».
Project «PUNCH» (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) - consists of four small satellites. Its purpose – study of the solar wind and the continuous flow of charged particles, originating from the Sun. The satellites of this mission "scatter" around the orbit like this, so that they "see" the Sun continuously. They will monitor the properties of the solar wind, will receive three-dimensional images of the Sun's corona, and will also keep records of coronary emissions. All this is necessary for understanding and predicting solar activity.
Mission «SPHEREx» is actually a space telescope, which will be aimed at 300 millions of galaxies in the universe and 100 million stars of the Milky Way to create a map. in addition, it will also search space for signs of water and organic molecules. They can be found in star-forming zones, where young stars are surrounded by gas and dust. in addition, NASA will use the space telescope to map galaxies in the universe. And scientists hope to get an answer to the question of the rapid expansion of the universe after the Big Bang.
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