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Technicians continue preparing NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission for its upcoming launch. The team moved the observatory to the clean room where they loaded propellant into the spacecraft at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians loaded more than 317 pounds (or 144 kilograms) of hydrazine […]
The heliosphere, the magnetic bubble inflated by the solar wind protecting our solar system, holds clues to understanding how life on Earth is possible. Unlocking these mysteries has global implications, making international collaboration both invaluable and essential. NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, launching no earlier than September 2025, embraces this global perspective […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Observatory, set to provide quicker and more accurate space weather forecasts, arrived on July 20 at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians will process the spacecraft and ready it for launch alongside two NASA observatories, […]
Technicians offloaded NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory following arrival on July 20 at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Workers drove the spacecraft from a BAE Systems facility in Colorado, where teams built the spacecraft bus and integrated instruments at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkely in California. […]
Technicians installed a key piece of hardware that will help power NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory on its upcoming journey one million miles away from Earth. The launch processing team integrated and tested the two-panel solar array for the spacecraft on Thursday, July 17, at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the […]
Technicians installed two instruments on NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft on at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The work took multiple days and finished on Monday, June 23. Scheduled to launch this fall, IMAP’s 10 science instruments will monitor space weather and study and […]
Technicians removed NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft from its shipping container on Thursday, May 29, after transferring it from the airlock into the high bay at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IMAP spacecraft arrived at the facility on May 10, coming by truck […]
NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft arrived May 10 for processing at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will study how the Sun shapes the boundaries of the heliosphere, the bubble around our solar system. A semitrailer transported the spacecraft from NASA’s Marshall Space […]
NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at the agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, as part of its journey toward launch as soon as this fall. As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a sort of magnetic […]
With the installation of a charged particle detector on Dec. 3, 2024, all 10 of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) science instruments have been fully integrated on the spacecraft.
