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David McComas, a Princeton University professor, is the principal investigator leading the IMAP mission.

GovernanceValue 3.6Feb 3, 2026NASAs IMAP Begins Primary Science Mission

The IMAP mission includes an international team of 27 partner institutions.

GeneralValue 2.0Feb 3, 2026NASAs IMAP Begins Primary Science Mission

NASA's IMAP mission has arrived in its target orbit at the Sun–Earth Lagrange point L1.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Jan 12, 2026RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: RT by @Cosmic_Penguin: Navigation update: We've arrived! NASA's IMAP and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory missions have arrived in their target orbit at L1, the Sun–Earth Lagrange point. Launched together, the two spacecraft have now reached their operational location.

The IMAP mission is close to completing its commissioning phase.

PlanValue 2.2Dec 26, 2025CoDICE instrument returns first-light particle data for IMAP mission

Students are expected to analyze results from the 3UCubed satellite in combination with NASA IMAP mission data to improve forecasting of space weather.

GeneralCapabilityValue 2.1Nov 10, 2025Student CubeSat set for launch to support NASA IMAP mission with space weather data collection

David McComas from Princeton University leads the IMAP mission with a team of 27 partner institutions.

GovernanceRelationshipsValue 3.5Oct 5, 2025Sonde spaziali NASA lanciate per studiare il Sole e proteggere la Terra

The IMAP mission will trace the boundaries of the heliosphere, a bubble inflated by solar wind that protects the solar system from galactic cosmic rays.

CapabilityGeneralValue 2.0Oct 5, 2025Sonde spaziali NASA lanciate per studiare il Sole e proteggere la Terra

The IMAP mission will chart the boundary of the heliosphere and sample solar wind particles from the Sun.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Sep 25, 2025NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun’s Influence Across Space

The IMAP mission also includes NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1, which will also head to the Earth-Sun L1 point.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Sep 24, 2025SpaceX launches NASA’s IMAP heliophysics mission from sunny Florida

This was the second flight for the first stage booster supporting the IMAP mission, which previously supported KF-01.

PlanCapabilityValue 3.4Sep 24, 2025SpaceX launches NASA’s IMAP heliophysics mission from sunny Florida

Falcon 9 launched NASA’s IMAP mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30 a.m. ET.

PlanValue 4.0Sep 24, 2025SpaceX launches NASA’s IMAP heliophysics mission from sunny Florida

The IMAP mission will support real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles that can produce hazardous conditions near Earth.

CapabilityGeneralValue 3.5Sep 24, 2025SpaceX launches NASA’s IMAP heliophysics mission from sunny Florida

SpaceX is targeting September 24 for the launch of NASA’s IMAP mission to interplanetary transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

PlanValue 4.0Sep 23, 2025SpaceX moves NASA’s IMAP mission to Wednesday from the Cape

This will be the second flight for the SpaceX first stage booster supporting the IMAP mission.

PlanValue 2.9Sep 23, 2025SpaceX moves NASA’s IMAP mission to Wednesday from the Cape

The IMAP mission also carries NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1.

CapabilityValue 4.0Sep 23, 2025SpaceX moves NASA’s IMAP mission to Wednesday from the Cape

Liftoff for the IMAP mission is targeted for 7:30 a.m. ET.

PlanValue 3.0Sep 23, 2025SpaceX moves NASA’s IMAP mission to Wednesday from the Cape

SWFO-L1 is utilizing the ride-sharing opportunity on NASA's IMAP mission.

PlanValue 3.6Sep 22, 2025SWFO-L1 soll vor Sonnenstürmen warnen

Carruthers is scheduled to launch in 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 2, 2024BAE Systems Successfully Integrates UV Spectrometer of NASA's Carruthers Observatory

The Carruthers satellite is scheduled to launch in 2025 as a rideshare component of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 1, 2024BAE Systems completes integration of NASA’s Carruthers Observatory

Lunar Trailblazer, a SIMPLEx mission originally set to launch as a rideshare on the IMAP mission in 2025, was moved by NASA to fly on the Intuitive Machines IM-2 lunar lander currently planned for late 2023.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Apr 13, 2023ESCAPADE confident in planned 2024 New Glenn launch

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