Going Up: SPHEREx and PUNCH
A look at SPHEREx and PUNCH, two missions sharing a ride to a sun-synchronous low earth orbit.
A look at SPHEREx and PUNCH, two missions sharing a ride to a sun-synchronous low earth orbit.
On 10 September 2020 an asteroid missed our planet by 40 million kilometers, more than 100 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. It was detected only very recently by amateur astronomer Leonardo Amaral of the Campo dos Amarais observatory in Brazil. To quote Planetary Society’s Chief scientist Bruce Betts: “the fact that this […]
How can we all do space, @fillingspace recently asked me on Twitter. That’s a good question: