Liftoff! Three New Space Weather Spacecraft Soar into Florida Sky
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.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) and its two rideshare missions: NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft, lifted off at 7:30 a.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy.
Our coverage continues this morning through deployment of the spacecraft and acquisition of signal here on the IMAP blog.
