Project News

SPHEREx Observatory Assembled

SPHEREx • News Release • April 22nd, 2024

The SPHEREx observatory is now fully assembled and ready to enter its environmental test campaign.

SPHEREx Observatory Starts Final Assembly

SPHEREx • News Release • March 21st, 2024

The final assembly of the SPHEREx observatory has began.

Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos

SPHEREx • News Release • February 19th, 2024

Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.

SPHEREx Releases Catalog of Targets for Ices Studies

SPHEREx • News Release • December 6th, 2023

The SPHEREx List of ICE Sources (SPLICEs), just published by a team led by CfA astronomers Matthew Ashby and Joseph Hora, presents a catalog of 8.9 million objects of interest for the upcoming SPHEREx Ices investigation.

Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way

SPHEREx • News Release • November 9th, 2023

Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky.

SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement at Caltech

SPHEREx • News Release • September 22nd, 2023

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space. This news piece describes this testing milestone.

SPHEREx put to the test in KASI thermal vacuum chamber

SPHEREx • News Release • August 22nd, 2023

In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the environment of space.

System Level Testing of the SPHEREx Instrument Completed Successfully

SPHEREx • News Release • August 3rd, 2023

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

SPHEREx at Explore JPL open house

SPHEREx • News Release • April 26th, 2023

SPHEREx team members showcased SPHEREx during the Explore JPL open house.

Test Chamber for NASA’s New Cosmic Mapmaker Makes Dramatic Entrance

SPHEREx • News Release • August 16th, 2022

The SPHEREx mission will create a 3D map of the entire sky. Its cutting-edge instruments require a custom-built chamber to make sure they’ll be ready to operate in space. After three years of design and construction, a monthlong boat ride across the Pacific Ocean, and a lift from a 30-ton crane,...

SPHEREx Observatory Assembled

SPHEREx • April 22nd, 2024

The SPHEREx observatory is now fully assembled and ready to enter its environmental test campaign.

SPHEREx Observatory Starts Final Assembly

SPHEREx • March 21st, 2024

The final assembly of the SPHEREx observatory has began.

Building Precision Instruments to Explore the Cosmos

SPHEREx • February 19th, 2024

Phil Korngut tests NASA’s SPHEREx telescope under extreme conditions in the SPHEREx laboratory in California.

SPHEREx Releases Catalog of Targets for Ices Studies

SPHEREx • December 6th, 2023

The SPHEREx List of ICE Sources (SPLICEs), just published by a team led by CfA astronomers Matthew Ashby and Joseph Hora, presents a catalog of 8.9 million objects of interest...

Construction on NASA Mission to Map 450 Million Galaxies Is Under Way

SPHEREx • November 9th, 2023

Key elements are coming together for NASA’s SPHEREx mission, a space telescope that will create a map of the universe like none before. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope is...

SPHEREx Space Telescope Stays Cool in Basement at Caltech

SPHEREx • September 22nd, 2023

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has been tucked inside a custom-built chamber on and off for the past two months undergoing tests to prepare it for its two-year mission in space....

SPHEREx put to the test in KASI thermal vacuum chamber

SPHEREx • August 22nd, 2023

In this timelapse movie, scientists and engineers can be seen preparing NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope for tests inside a vacuum chamber at Caltech that simulates the...

System Level Testing of the SPHEREx Instrument Completed Successfully

SPHEREx • August 3rd, 2023

The SPHEREx team completed the first successful testing of the SPHEREx flight instrument – detector assemblies, telescope, and thermal control system.

SPHEREx at Explore JPL open house

SPHEREx • April 26th, 2023

SPHEREx team members showcased SPHEREx during the Explore JPL open house.

Test Chamber for NASA’s New Cosmic Mapmaker Makes Dramatic Entrance

SPHEREx • August 16th, 2022

The SPHEREx mission will create a 3D map of the entire sky. Its cutting-edge instruments require a custom-built chamber to make sure they’ll be ready to operate in space. After...