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    NASA’s IMAP Mission Reaches Its Destination

    A data visualization shows Earth on the left surrounded by a gray oval labeled "magnetosphere." A long, yellow arrow points toward the right and is labeled "to Sun." Along that arrow, on the right, is a green plus sign marked L1. Colored ovals show the orbits of the IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO-L1 spacecraft in teal, pink, and purple, respectively. IMAP's orbit around L1 is the smallest, with SWFO-L1's orbit slightly bigger. Carruthers has a very large orbit around L1. In the lower left is a time stamp that reads 2026 Jul 14 10:02.

    NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) reached its destination at Lagrange point 1, or L1, approximately 1 million miles from Earth toward the Sun on Jan. 10. The mission’s operations team sent commands to the spacecraft on the morning of Jan. 9 to begin trajectory maneuvers to enter orbit at L1. Early on the […]

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