It's a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA's newest space telescope, SPHEREx " designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way " and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH are on their way to space. Both missions lifted off together aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:10 p.m. ET (8:10 p.m PT) Tuesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The launch comes after weather and integration issues " which cropped up as engineers attached both missions to the rocket and encapsulated them within a protective faring " caused a series of delays after the window of opportunity originally opened on February 28.
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