PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...
A German startup named Isar Aerospace will try to launch its first rocket Saturday, aiming to become the first in a wave of ...
By early on March 12, the four satellites of the PUNCH constellation had been deployed and ground ... will orbit Earth at an ...
They will also track solar storms like coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Their sun-synchronous orbit will enable them to see the sun 24/7, with their view only occasionally blocked by Earth.
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NASA Launches Missions to Explore Sun, Universe Origins
NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) observatory and PUNCH (Polarimeter to ...
The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the ... This type of orbit is known as sun-synchronous because it ...
NASA’s newest astrophysics observatory, SPHEREx, is on its way to study the origins of our universe and the history of galaxies.
Deployment of payloads from the second stage to Sun-synchronous orbits (SSO ... can be tracked by an optoelectric system on the ground. D-Orbit is flying ION SCV-017 Marvelous Mathias, another ...
The startup, established in 2017 by Aditya Kedlaya and Nitish Singh, is dedicated to unveiling its groundbreaking space-to-ground laser ... testbed in a sun-synchronous orbit.