Il lancio è avvenuto con successo.
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Erano 9 giorni tondi (9 giorni e 46 minuti per la precisione) che non si assisteva ad un lancio orbitale di SpaceX. Per trovare una gap maggiore fra due lanci di successo bisogna tornare al luglio dello scorso anno quando passarono 18 giorni tra Türksat 6A e Starlink 10-9 (con in mezzo il fallimento di Starlink 9-3).
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: NASA/Jim RossSono stati catalogati 5 oggetti con questo lancio, SPHEREx, PUNCH, il secondo stadio e…?
Nuovo articolo di Dario Frigerio pubblicato su AstronautiNEWS.it.
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SPHEREx ha inviato le prime immagini di prova.
Anche PUNCH ha processato la sua prima “immagine”.
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Sono arrivate anche le prime immagini di PUNCH.
NASA’s PUNCH Mission Captures First Images of Sun, Space
The first light image taken on April 14, 2025, by the PUNCH Narrow Field Imager demonstrates that the camera is in focus, working properly, and able to capture deep-field images of the solar corona against the glare of the Sun. This image has been filtered to highlight the stars that are visible through the far brighter “F corona” (also called zodiacal light) that surrounds the Sun. The instrument is not yet fully aligned with the Sun, leading to bright glints of sunlight, which are visible to the right of the Sun’s location on the image. Credits: NASA/SwRI/NRL
The first light image from the PUNCH Wide Field Imager (WFI) taken on April 14, 2025. This image shows the size of the WFI field using familiar constellations and demonstrates that the camera is in focus, working properly, and able to capture deep-field images. The soft diffuse glow is zodiacal light, composed of microscopic dust particles orbiting the Sun. Credits: NASA/SwRI
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Nuovo articolo di Luca Ambrosini pubblicato su AstronautiNEWS.it.
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PUNCH ha ripreso due CME. Nell’articolo linkato sotto c’è anche il video.
The images, stitched into a video, show giant CMEs, growing as they travel across the inner solar system. The mission’s highly sensitive, wide-field instruments were able to capture the whole CMEs, as they evolved in space, in much greater detail than previously possible. This big-picture view is essential to helping scientists better understand and predict space weather, which is driven by CMEs and can disrupt communications, endanger satellites, and create auroras at Earth. The series of new images also show Venus, Jupiter, several constellations including Orion, and the Pleiades star cluster. The Moon can also be seen in the sequence of images.
The Narrow Field Imager (NFI) camera, mounted on one of the four spacecraft of NASA’s PUNCH mission, imaged a large coronal mass ejection (CME) in exquisite detail on June 3, 2025. The CME can be seen rising in the center of the image, above the blocked-out Sun. This preliminary image includes artifacts of early processing but reveals NFI’s ability to image the Sun’s outer corona in great detail, in conjunction with the rest of PUNCH. NASA/SwRI
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Completata la prima mappa di SPHEREx nell’infrarosso, in 102 diverse lunghezze d’onda: quindi 102 mappe. Il satellite è in un’orbita polare e compie 14,5 rotazioni circa ogni giorno e scatta 3600 foto lungo una striscia circolare di cielo. In sei mesi quindi cattura tutto il cielo.
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PUNCH ha invece osservato la cometa Lemmon (C/2025 A6).
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