New NASA telescope SPHEREx is tasked with mapping the entire cosmos
The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.
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Airborne single-photon lidar system achieves high-resolution 3D imaging
This advance could make single-photon lidar practical for air and space applications such as environmental monitoring, 3D terrain mapping and object identification. Single-photon lidar uses single ...
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New NASA telescope SPHEREx is tasked with mapping the entire cosmos
The concentric layers of photon shields protect the sensitive optical instruments from the heat of the Earth and sun. SPHEREx launched at 11:10 p.m. EST, March 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ...