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Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others

September 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM UTC

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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September 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM UTC

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Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA · 28.6082, -80.6043

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Falcon 9 Block 5
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Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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90%
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September 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM UTC

Mission description

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.

Weather concern: Cumulus Cloud Rule

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Three New Missions Launch to Track Space WeatherLanzamiento de tres misiones de meteorología espacialLanzamiento de tres misiones de meteorología espacialThree New Missions Launch to Track Space WeatherWatch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch NASA's IMAP missionSpaceX Launches Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)SpaceX IMAP & others
Vehicle

Falcon 9 Block 5

Falcon · Block 5

Height

70 m

Diameter

3.65 m

LEO capacity

22,800 kg

Successful launches

622

Launch complex

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

The John F. Kennedy Space Center, located on Merritt Island, Florida, is one of NASA's ten field centers. Since 1968, KSC has been NASA's primary launch center of American spaceflight, research, and technology. Launch operations for the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs were carried out from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 and managed by KSC. Located on the east coast of Florida, KSC is adjacent to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).

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August 25, 2026 at 9:42 AM UTC

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September 1, 2026 at 8:01 AM UTC

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IMAP MissionSpaceXThree New Missions Launch to Track Space WeatherNASALanzamiento de tres misiones de meteorología espacialNASALanzamiento de tres misiones de meteorología espacialNASAThree New Missions Launch to Track Space WeatherNASAWatch Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch NASA's IMAP missionSpaceflight Now

Mission updates

Launch success with acquisition of signal from all 3 spacecraft.

September 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Liftoff.

September 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin

Official Webcast by NASA has started

September 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM UTC · LL2

Now targeting Sep 24 at 11:30:50 UTC

September 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM UTC · hitura-nobad

Weather is 90% favorable for launch.

September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM UTC · Cosmic_Penguin