Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
NASA
As auroras danced across the American sky in November, mission teams at Cape Canaveral were preparing to launch ESCAPADE – two spacecraft destined to study space weather at Mars, and the last of six NASA missions launching in 2025 to study heliophysics.
These missions are now preparing to fill in new pieces of the puzzle in understanding the vast, interconnected system of particles, magnetic fields, and plasma that starts at the Sun and shapes space weather out to the edges of our solar system. The new missions that joined NASA’s heliophysics fleet this year are EZIE, PUNCH, TRACERS, IMAP, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and ESCAPADE.
Join experts to see early data from the missions and learn how each mission’s unique perspective will help researchers unravel the space weather that can threaten our satellites, communications systems, GPS, and astronauts.
Panel:
Joe Westlake, Heliophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters
Craig DeForest, PUNCH Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute
David McComas, IMAP Principal Investigator, Princeton University
Rob Lillis, ESCAPADE Principal Investigator, University of California, Berkeley
Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Principal Investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Related presentations:
TH15H – NASA Heliophysics Division Update: How NASA Contends with Space Weather Impacts
SH21C-03 Initial Results from the PUNCH Mission
SH11A-01 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe: The NASA IMAP Mission (1/2) (Invited)
SH14B-03 ESCAPADE’s New Mission: Two-Point Space Weather Measurements at Earth, Mars, and in-Between
P14B-02 Exospheric sensing with the NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory
Contact: Abbey Interrante, NASA, abbey.a.interrante@nasa.gov
NASA
As auroras danced across the American sky in November, mission teams at Cape Canaveral were preparing to launch ESCAPADE – two spacecraft destined to study space weather at Mars, and the last of six NASA missions launching in 2025 to study heliophysics.
These missions are now preparing to fill in new pieces of the puzzle in understanding the vast, interconnected system of particles, magnetic fields, and plasma that starts at the Sun and shapes space weather out to the edges of our solar system. The new missions that joined NASA’s heliophysics fleet this year are EZIE, PUNCH, TRACERS, IMAP, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and ESCAPADE.
Join experts to see early data from the missions and learn how each mission’s unique perspective will help researchers unravel the space weather that can threaten our satellites, communications systems, GPS, and astronauts.
Panel:
Joe Westlake, Heliophysics Division Director, NASA Headquarters
Craig DeForest, PUNCH Principal Investigator, Southwest Research Institute
David McComas, IMAP Principal Investigator, Princeton University
Rob Lillis, ESCAPADE Principal Investigator, University of California, Berkeley
Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory Principal Investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Related presentations:
TH15H – NASA Heliophysics Division Update: How NASA Contends with Space Weather Impacts
SH21C-03 Initial Results from the PUNCH Mission
SH11A-01 Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe: The NASA IMAP Mission (1/2) (Invited)
SH14B-03 ESCAPADE’s New Mission: Two-Point Space Weather Measurements at Earth, Mars, and in-Between
P14B-02 Exospheric sensing with the NASA Carruthers Geocorona Observatory
Contact: Abbey Interrante, NASA, abbey.a.interrante@nasa.gov
