SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the ...

Emily Mason, a heliophysicist at San Diego-based research firm Predictive Science, and her colleagues observed coronal loops ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The American space agency mission will observe the Sun's outer atmosphere - the corona - to learn how the mass and energy there become the solar wind. Four suitcase-sized spacecraft will be used ...

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 ...