Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are poised to begin their two-year mission to study the sun's outer atmosphere and its transformation into the solar wind.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched at 11:10 p.m. EST from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. carrying NASA's SPHEREx space telescope and the PUNCH solar mission.The dual payload mission reached an orbit,