September 24, 2025 11:30 am

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IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On – L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth’s exosphere.
Launch Overview
Window Open 11:30 UTC
Window Close 11:30 UTC
Lift Off Sep 24, 2025 · 11:30 UTC
Launch Facility Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Pad Launch Complex 39A
Target Orbit Heliocentric L1
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload IMAP & others
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Heliocentric L1
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On – L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth’s exosphere.

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SpaceX
Launch Complex 39A
Launch Overview
Window Open 11:30 UTC
Window Close 11:30 UTC
Lift Off Sep 24, 2025 · 11:30 UTC
Launch Facility Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Pad Launch Complex 39A
Target Orbit Heliocentric L1
Payload Overview
Customer SpaceX
Payload IMAP & others
Rocket Falcon 9
Destination Heliocentric L1
Recovery Overview
Landing Location See Mission Notes
Landing Type RTLS / Droneship

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