PUNCH celebrates one year of flight!
The PUNCH mission successfully launched on March 11, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
On 11-Mar-2025, PUNCH launched into Sun-synchronous polar orbit on a Falcon 9 spacecraft, in a rideshare with the SPHEREx mission. In the 365 days since then, PUNCH has downlinked ~1.5 million images from space, tracked over 100 CMEs, observed several new comets and one interstellar visitor, and changed the way humanity sees our environment in space. We are still refining the data processing for the most complex ground pipeline produced for any Explorer mission, but the images are already spectacular. Get ready for an amazing year of PUNCH science results ahead!
The next PUNCH science meeting, PUNCH 7, is open to all 12-14 May 2026, in Boulder, Colorado (submit abstract | register).
