Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The payload fairing protecting NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) and PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) separates following the launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.

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