IMAP Mission

completedLaunch 2025-215

Launched 9/24/2025HEOService CSat EEO E

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Payloads

Assets deployed on this mission, enriched from spacecraft records.

3 payloads

Carruthers Geocorona Obs.

active

Science Exploration

Launch Stack

Operator: SpaceX
Launch Vehicle: Falcon 9 FT5
Launch Site: Launch Complex 39A, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida (NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida)US

Payload Summary

Payload Count: 3
Payload Status: active 3
Payload Mission Types: Science Exploration 3

Mentions

All verified mentions of this mission in source documents.

NASA originally planned to launch Lunar Trailblazer as a rideshare on the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, but IMAP delays pushed that launch into 2025.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Aug 26, 2022Lunar Trailblazer faces NASA review after cost overruns

The IMAP mission’s launch was postponed from October 2024 to February 2025 because of development delays caused by the pandemic.

PlanGeneralValue 4.0Mar 26, 2021NASA looking for earlier launch of lunar orbiter smallsat mission

The Solar Cruiser mission is set to launch as a rideshare aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission in 2025.

PlanValue 4.0Jan 29, 2021Redwire’s Roccor To Develop Deployable Systems For NASA’s Solar Cruiser Mission

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