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NASA set to deliver a knock-out PUNCH to mysteries of the solar wind
A new mission designed to better understand the heliosphere will be the first to map in three dimensions how the solar corona ...
NASA’s PUNCH Mission: Tracking Solar Storms With an 8,000-Mile Virtual Telescope
NASA’s PUNCH mission is launching to study the Sun’s corona and solar wind using a network of four small satellites. By ...
NASA's PUNCH mission to revolutionize our view of solar wind
The Earth is immersed in material streaming from the sun. This stream, called the solar wind, is washing over our planet, ...
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China to send a spacecraft out of the ecliptic to study the Sun’s poles
The spacecraft will also carry a Visible-light Coronagraph and a Very Large Angle Coronagraph, enabling detailed observations of the Sun’s corona and solar wind structures. A Low Frequency Radio ...
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NASA will soon launch PUNCH to study how the Sun influences the space around us
PUNCH will watch the how the Sun's corona births solar wind disturbances that spread across the full scope of the inner solar ...
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Distinctive Voices — Revealing the Universe with the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is the NASA Astrophysics Division’s next flagship mission. Roman will conduct surveys of the sky to help reveal some of our Universe’s most interesting ...
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SwRI-led PUNCH spacecraft poised for launch into polar orbit
Four small suitcase-sized spacecraft, designed and built by Southwest Research Institute headquartered in San Antonio, are ...