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Meet SPHEREx, NASA's next cosmic mapmaker – targeting launch in late February 2025. This space telescope will scan the entire sky, charting the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 102 infrared wavelengths. Here are its 3 science goals: go.nasa.gov/4hvbmYT

  • NASA’s SPHEREx observatory undergoing integration and testing at BAE Systems in Boulder, Colorado, in April 2024. The image shows the observatory with a polished and reflective surface in a brightly lit testing facility, with an American flag in the background, surrounded by technical equipment and a vibrant blue and red glow from the lighting.

Credit: BAE Systems
Nina Mamcarz

Aerospace Engineering Honours Student at TU Delft

1mo

Impressive engineering! 🛰️ I have a question regarding the SPHEREx telescope’s mirrors: considering the precision required for its infrared observations, how does the design address potential anisotropic deformations caused by differential thermal gradients during cooldown to cryogenic temperatures? Is there a specific machining or surface treatment process to ensure the optical surface remains within alignment tolerances?

Spencer Hart

AI Innovator | Originator of the H.A.R.T. Framework | Proto-Awareness Engineering- Driving Key Reflections and Iterative Feedback Loops in AI

1mo

This is incredible! How does its functionality compare to JWST? This is amazing! So grateful to be alive in this time! Trying to integrate into the tech scene!! ❤️

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Lei Gao

Telecommunications Professional

1mo

nice try, continue wave view of lights. but if the lights orbit that will be continue also and degrade stedy round and round..so the insert high energy less than xray less than uv less than light less than infred less than microwave less than long radio wave..or say, need modeling of sun shield and ir dedraded from earth near to 102030au..and say, blue and red shift maybe nearly and early stage..or lights into high dense field and lights leave high dense field..

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Want to attend the launch? Digital creators and space enthusiasts are invited to apply for a #NASASocial at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The application deadline is Monday, Dec. 23: go.nasa.gov/3VvAHZj 

Silas Orekoya

Emerging Management Consultant

3w

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Mohd Juma

Duty Manager at Dubai Airport

1mo

It is possible to make fire satellite 🛰 to detection the fire happened in airport operations fire service

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Henry J Ramirez

Director of Technical Services at Mecanica Scientific Services Corporation

2w

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Javier Serrano Royo

Electrical and electronics Engineer Motorsport enthusiast -Discipline always beats talent-

1mo

Space exploration is the way to discover the secrets around us. Since dark matter to quantum physics

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Spheres is a first class mission which will provide fundamental and new cosmological information.

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Mohit Gehilot

Harnessing Latest Technology For the Better Future

1mo

Great to see the spectroscopy capabilities of SPHEREx, a major step forward in understanding the universe's evolution ,

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