(10 Mar 2025)
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SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS // NASA
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1. Animation of the NASA Spherex observatory in space
2. Animation of Earth with lines showing how the observatory will map out space in a way that has not been done before
3. Various animation demonstrations of how the Spherex will allow for a 3-dimensional view of the whole sky in a timely fashion
4. Animation showing how 22 full moons side by side could fit in a single SphereX image
5. Animation showing Spherex observatory mapping space
6. Graph showing the plot features of a bump labelled ‘Cassiopeia A dust feature’, which is from a radio image created with the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico – an example of a small view of the sky which reveals many colours
7. Graph showing an all-sky map in only a few colours
8. Animation of Spherex observatory in space
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Lompoc, California, US – 26 February 2025
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Dore, Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"This week is going to be very exciting. So NASA is launching two missions in one rocket. The first one is going to be the Punch mission which is going to look at the sun or the favourite star in a new way. And the second one is the Spherex mission which is the one I’m working on. And the goal of Spherex is not to look at the sun, but to look away from the sun and provide an all sky map in 102 colours.The motivation for that is to get new insights about the origin of the universe, the origin of galaxies and the origin of life."
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Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, US – 14 January 2025
10. Various of the Spherex spacecraft being transported to Astrotech at the Vandenberg Space Force Base in a protected white box, on the back of a semi-trailer which is wheeled into a large workshop facility
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lompoc, California, US – 26 February 2025
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Dore, Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"So the spacecraft’s about two metres high and it has this very distinctive conic shape cone. And it’s going to map the sky, going to (produce) an all sky map every six months. And we’ll do that for two years. So we’ll be generating four all sky maps in 102 colours. And after that we have one year for analysis before publishing our final results."
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Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, US – 25 January 2025
12. Various of the PUNCH satellites sollar array being tested at Astrotech’s hub at Vandenberg Space Force Base
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Lompoc, California, US – 26 February 2025
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Dore, Senior Research Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"So we do have a specific science goal but I have to say there’s something a little more adventurous in the fact that throughout history every time we looked at the sky in a new way, we discover new things. We discover an aesthetic phenomena and Spherex by providing this all sky map with 102 colours we will really look at the sky in a new way. So I do expect there would be unexpected discoveries. And I think something which is also very important, the fact that all data will become public very quickly after we collect them."
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Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, US – 15 January 2025
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