Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Three new missions to track space weather are launching on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Sept. 23: NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NOAA's Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), and NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. These probes and telescopes will help researchers monitor and study the Sun, the near-Earth environment, and the heliosphere.

Participants from NASA, NOAA, and participating universities will discuss the science of the missions and answer questions from the media.

Participants in the news conference include:
- Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
- David J. McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
- Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Jamie Favors, director, Space Weather Program, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
- Clinton Wallace, Director, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
- Dr. James Spann, Senior Scientist, NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations

Learn more about IMAP: science.nasa.gov/mission/imap
Learn more about SWFO-L1: science.nasa.gov/mission/swfo-l1
Learn more about the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory: science.nasa.gov/mission/carruthers-geocorona-observatory

Credit: NASA