NASA’s New Missions Will Map the Sun and the Cosmos https://ift.tt/UCLol4K NASA’s New Missions Will Map the Sun and the Cosmos Two NASA missions aimed at advancing space research are scheduled for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 2 from Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The spacecraft, PUNCH and SPHEREx, have been designed for separate but complementary scientific objectives. While PUNCH will focus on the dynamics of the Sun's corona and solar wind, SPHEREx will survey the broader universe using in…