Overview

• All four PUNCH spacecraft have reached their planned science orbits along Earth’s day-night boundary, establishing a continuous, unobstructed view of the solar corona and wind.
• One Narrow Field Imager (coronagraph) and three Wide Field Imagers capture detailed and panoramic views that are stitched into ultra-wide mosaics of the heliosphere.
• NASA has released the first Level 2 mosaicked images via its Solar Data Analysis Center and the Southwest Research Institute’s portal, offering near–science-ready data to researchers and the public.
• The constellation’s continuous coverage enables end-to-end tracking of coronal mass ejections as they evolve into space weather events that can disrupt satellites, communications and power grids.
• PUNCH’s global perspective is designed to complement focused missions like Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, STEREO and SOHO to build a connected, comprehensive Sun–Earth system picture.