Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from Launch Complex 39A carrying IMAP & others to Heliocentric L1 on 24 Sept 2025, 11:30 UTC. Outcome: Launch Successful.
SuccessLaunch Successful
About the mission
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.