CURRENT SOLAR MISSIONS
This mission hub serves as a central location to current & past solar missions, with a brief overview & links for details.
Humans have been observing the Sun since the beginning of our existence. In the early 1960s, spacecraft began to help us to make observations.
There have been many missions since that time that have furthered our understanding of the Sun. Missions also bring up many new questions to answer, to expand human’s understanding of the Sun and beyond.
PUNCH Will Reveal How the Sun Shapes Space
PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) is a groundbreaking NASA mission launched in March 2025. It is tracking how the Sun’s outer atmosphere turns into the solar wind—a constant stream of charged particles that fills the solar system and affects Earth.
Featured Solar Missions
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