Approaching One Year of PUNCH Science

In the eleven months since we switched on the PUNCH science program in June of 2025, the four PUNCH spacecraft have generated and downlinked nearly 2 million images of the corona and inner solar system. The Science Operations Center have implemented and are executing the most complex data pipeline ever implemented for an Explorer-class mission, with over 100 distinct data products generated by dozens of modules, to knit those images into polarimetric images from a single "virtual instrument". The result is continuous movie coverage of the entire inner solar system. I will give an overview of mission status, highlights from the first year of PUNCH operations, and thoughts on how PUNCH is changing the face of heliophysics.