Nasa solar satellite cameras developed by UK company
Dr Jackie Davies, from RAL Space, said the latest mission built on the company’s “extensive heritage in leading, and contributing to, solar and solar wind imaging instruments”.
He said the company was “thrilled” to be working alongside Nasa and over US based teams on the “pioneering” project.
He added that he “can’t wait to see what new insights our technological and scientific input will reveal in the coming months”.
Nasa’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission is set to launch in the early hours of Friday, UK time.
The four ten-and-a-half stone (67kg) satellites will orbit the Earth for the duration of the mission, which is expected to last two years.
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