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NASA and SpaceX Are Teaming Up to Uncover the Birth of the Universe – Interesting Engineering
The project is called SPHEREx and it aims to explore the sky in near-infrared light.
NASA and SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, have announced that they will collaborate to provide launch services for the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. SPHEREx is a $98.8 million two-year mission that aims to explore the sky in near-infrared light.
This light is not visible to the human eye, and it can be the key to answering comic questions involving the birth of the universe. The mission will also seek out water and…
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