The Southwest Research Institute-led Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission collected its first images following its March 11 launch into polar orbit around Earth. The ...

NASA's PUNCH sun-studying mission has seen first light — and the team says all four instruments are indeed ... PUNCH's future cosmic images won't have any stars at all — or any zodiacal ...

The SwRI-led PUNCH mission acquired these first images last week. Courtesy of NASA/SwRI/NRL Operating from SwRI’s Mission Operations Center in Boulder, the spacecraft now are in a 90-day ...

NASA's PUNCH sun-studying mission has seen first light — and the team says all four instruments are indeed ... PUNCH's future cosmic images won't have any stars at all — or any zodiacal ...

On April 14, 2025, the SwRI-led PUNCH mission opened the doors of two instruments, collecting this first-light image and demonstrating that the cameras are in focus, working properly and capturing ...

NASA's PUNCH sun-studying mission has seen first light — and the team says all four instruments are indeed working as expected.