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SPHEREx & PUNCH launch thread (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spacex@sh.itjust.works
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| Scheduled for (UTC) | 2025-03-12, 03:10 | |

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| | Scheduled for (local) | 2025-03-11, 20:10 (PDT) | | Launch site | SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA | | Booster | B1088-3 | | Landing | Landing Zone 4 | | Payloads | SPHEREx & PUNCH | | Customer(s) | NASA | | Target orbit | Sun-Synchronous Orbit |

Webcasts

| Stream | Link | |

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| | NASA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBUQoPW0Aw (scrub) | Space Affairs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgy4dvqYqms (scrub) | Spaceflight Now | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b88ru3jQy-4%28%5Bscrub%5D%28https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Db88ru3jQy-4%29%29 | NASASpaceflight | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43Syg1DzYyQ (scrub) | The Launch Pad | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZktDx5v-BDY (scrub) | SpaceX | https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1899645366280077761 | The Space Devs | https://www.youtube.com/@thespacedevs/videos

Stats

Sourced from NextSpaceflight and r/SpaceX:

☑️ 8th launch from SLC-4E this year

☑️ 17 days, 1:31:52 turnaround for this pad

☑️ 24th landing on LZ-4

☑️ 420th Falcon booster landing, 433rd Falcon recovery attempt

☑️ 27th Falcon 9 mission this year, 445th overall

☑️ 27th SpaceX mission this year, 461st overall (excluding Starship flights)

☑️ 29th SpaceX launch this year, 478th overall (including Starship flights)

Mission info

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer mission will provide the first all-sky spectral survey. Over a two-year planned mission, the SPHEREx Observatory will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies along with more than 100 million stars in the Milky Way in order to explore the origins of the universe.

PUNCH is a NASA Small Explorer (SMEX) mission to better understand how the mass and energy of the Sun’s corona become the solar wind that fills the solar system. Four suitcase-sized satellites will work together to produce images of the entire inner solar system around the clock.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Deployment of the second pair of PUNCH satellites confirmed. Launch success!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Deployment of the first pair of PUNCH satellites confirmed.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

SPHEREx deployment confirmed.

Deployment of PUNCH satellites is scheduled for T+00:52:16 and T+00:53:07.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

SES-2, SECO-2, and nominal orbit insertion.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

M-vac shutdown, nominal orbit insertion.

Edit: Next up will be SES-2 at T+00:39:28.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Stage 1 landing confirmed!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, stage 1 boostback burn, and fairing separation.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Liftoff!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

Strongback retract has started.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 hours ago

NASA are live with pre-launch coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqBUQoPW0Aw

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1899286484966154690

Due to unfavorable weather at the launch site and an issue with one of the @NASA spacecraft, we are standing down from tonight's Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH missions. Next launch opportunity is Tuesday, March 11 at 8:10 p.m. PT

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Scrub called at T-52:46 due to issues with the spacecraft. Also, the weather was not looking great.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1898912693761069422

Now targeting no earlier than Monday, March 10 for Falcon 9's launch of @NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1898537636668870968

Standing down from tonight's Falcon 9 launch of @NASA's SPHEREx and PUNCH missions for teams to continue vehicle checkouts ahead of liftoff. Will announce a new launch date once confirmed on the Range

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1898142645085782227

Targeting Saturday, March 8 at 7:10 p.m. PT for Falcon 9’s launch of @NASA’s SPHEREx Observatory and PUNCH satellites