PUNCH will jointly observe the Sun with many other missions. Trajectories of the Solar Orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, BepiColombo, STEREO-A and JUICE and the 4 inner planets, spanning April 2025 through December 2029, show collaborative opportunities with PUNCH. There's also an animation (link to Google Drive).
While making its own unique observations, PUNCH will augment a fleet of international spacecraft observing the Sun and solar system, including NASA's Parker Solar Probe and STEREO missions, the European Space Agency (ESA) Solar Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) missions, and the ESA/Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) BepiColombo mission, all of which afford unique joint science opportunities. The longitudinal trajectories of these missions are shown along with the orbits of Mercury, Venus, and Mars relative to an Earth-stationry frame of reference. On this scale, PUNCH is always located at Earth. Trajectories were generated by the Austrian Space Weather Office / eoSphere Austria (Möstl/Davies/Weiler) – further details and additional movies are availble here.
(This is PUNCH Nugget #4; nuggets are archived at the PUNCH website.)
