Dr. Phil Korngut, NASA instrument scientist with SPHEREx, has more on the two separate missions that are on the same rocket and talks about what it means and what it will teach us.

The agencies, referring to a live broadcast by the Roscosmos space agency, said the spacecraft separated from the third stage of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket and went into orbit at 12:33 a.m. Moscow time ...