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05/18/2021 | News release | Distributed by Public on 05/18/2021 15:42

NASA’s PUNCH Mission Moves Towards Launch in 2023

Following a successful System Requirements Review/Mission Definition Review on April 6, 2020, the target launch readiness timeframe for NASA's PUNCH mission - short for Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere - has been moved from August 2022 to 2023 to accommodate the mission selection timeline.

PUNCH is led by Southwest Research Institute's Boulder, Colorado, office. The mission is managed by Explorers Program Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, which is managed by Goddard for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.