NASA Seeks to Unlock Secrets of the Heliosphere's Solar Shield

What Is Heliosphere? NASA's New Mission To Study Sun's Protective Bubble

NASA launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, September 24.

Princeton-led IMAP mission launches into deep space

At 7:30 a.m., NASA’s IMAP, a Princeton-led mission to understand the Sun’s impact on its space environment, launched successfully from Cape Canaveral.

NASA seeks to unlock secrets of the heliosphere's solar shield

NASA's IMAP mission has launched probes to study the heliosphere, a solar shield protecting Earth, offering insights into solar storms and safeguarding technology.

Space weather satellites blast off to collect information on solar storms

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

2 newly launched NASA missions will help scientists understand the influence of the Sun, both from up close and afar

NASA's IMAP mission is one of two launching in September 2025. NASA/Princeton University/Patrick McPikeEven at a distance of 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, activity on the Sun can have adverse effects on technological systems on Earth. Solar flares – intense bursts of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere – and coronal mass ejections – eruptions of plasma from the Sun – can affect the communications, satellite navigation and power grid…

SpaceX launches 3 probes to study space weather and map the boundaries of our solar system

NASA's IMAP mission and two other spacecraft launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24) to study space weather and its effects on Earth.