NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) project

[jackokie]

I just ran across NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere) project. From the project website: "PUNCH advances the science of heliophysics. The PUNCH science goal is to determine the cross-scale physical processes that unify the solar corona with the rest of the solar system environment (the heliosphere). " Website is https://punch.space.swri.edu, and is fairly descriptive of the planned data collection.

Two questions:

1. Does it appear the data collected will be useful in evaluating the Electric Sun hypothesis and / or the Solar Circuit?

2. What additional instrumentation would be helpful in answering question #1?

BTW, the spacecraft will use Tethers Unlimited's Hydros thruster, the ultimate product of Ben Longmier's Kickstarter water thruster project.