SPHEREx, PUNCH launch Saturday night

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NASA ’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, and a sun-focused mission called PUNCH , are ready to lift off to space together.

Both missions are set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:09 p.m. ET ( 7:09 PT) Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California .

If the missions don’t launch Saturday night as planned, multiple launch windows are available through April .

PUNCH is a constellation of four small suitcase-size spacecraft that will spend the next two years whirling around Earth to observe the sun and the heliosphere.

It will be the first mission to image the corona and solar wind together.

Measurements collected by PUNCH will help scientists better understand how solar storms form and evolve.

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