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The SwRI-led PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission will study the Sun and the solar wind. PUNCH’s four suitcase-sized spacecraft, built in SwRI’s new Space Systems Integration Facility, carry three identical instruments to collect images forming a trefoil in the sky while the fourth instrument collects the center field of view, except for a “hole” obscuring the Sun itself.