PUNCH consists of four small spacecraft, each about the size of a suitcase, which will work together in a constellation to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere and the solar wind. Currently at Vandenberg ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, utilizing four small spacecraft, has released initial images of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) with unprecedented detail, exceeding the capabilities of previous instruments. The ...

Four San Antonio-built satellites on a NASA mission to stare at the sun have opened their eyes and tested their thrusters for the first time. Known as PUNCH, the suitcase-sized craft from Southwest ...

On August 7, 2025, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission reached a pivotal milestone by successfully positioning all four of its spacecraft into their final science ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission, led by SwRI, used its Narrow Field Imager to collect images of solar activity. By blocking the Sun’s bright face, NFI captures the Sun’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. The ...

Interstellar object 3I/Atlas appears in NASA’s Punch images during a 40-day study of Comet Swan, offering new data on motion near the Sun ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look everywhere all at once." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...