NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona
SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...
SpaceX Scrubs Launch of 2 NASA Satellite Missions
The spacecraft, SPHEREx and PUNCH, had been expected to launch on a SpaceX rocket on Saturday. Two NASA missions will have to wait longer for a launch aboard a single rocket. Both aim to unravel ...
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NASA's launching a PUNCH satellite constellation this month to study the solar wind in 3D
For instance, its outer atmosphere, the corona, appears to be hotter than ... As for the final part of PUNCH — the fourth member of the satellite constellation — DeForest explained that ...
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Earth May Soon Get Early Solar Flare Warnings
Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...
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Mapping the universe and space weather; 2 NASA satellites launch on big science mission
Each mapping takes six months. The other mission launching on Friday is called PUNCH, a.k.a. the Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere. This satellite, made up of four smaller satellites ...
The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
The idea of flying satellites in "very" low-Earth orbit is not new. Dating back to the dawn of the space age in the late 1950s, the first US spy satellites, as part of the Corona program, orbited the ...
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NASA launches 'incredible' new tools into space to study the universe, sun's corona
During its two-year mission, the four satellites of PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, to determine how it transitions ...