NASA’s SpaceX IMAP Liftoff
NASA ID: KSC-20250924-PH-BAE01_0003
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. The missions will each focus on different effects of the solar wind — the continuous stream of particles emitted by the Sun — and space weather — the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun — from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches, billions of miles away at the edge of our solar system.
Date Created:2025-09-24
Center:KSC
Keywords: Carruthers , Falcon9 , IMAP , KSC , Launch , NASA , NESDIS , NOAA , SLC39A , SWFO , SpaceX
Albums: SpaceX_IMAP
Location: Launch Complex 39A
Photographer: BAE Systems/Benjamin Fry
