NASA’s IMAP Mission to Chart Solar System Boundary, Launching in 2025

NASA’s IMAP Spacecraft Gears Up for Mission to Explore Solar System’s Edge

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has begun final preparations at Kennedy Space Center for a launch no earlier than September 2025. The mission will position IMAP at Lagrange Point 1, a million miles from Earth, to study the solar wind and the edge of the heliosphere. The spacecraft, built by Johns Hopkins APL, will fly alongside two other sa…NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has begun final prepar…

NASA’s IMAP Mission to Chart Solar System Boundary, Launching in 2025

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has begun final preparations at Kennedy Space Center for a launch no earlier than September 2025. The mission will position IMAP at Lagrange Point 1, a million miles from Earth, to study the solar wind and the edge of the heliosphere. The spacecraft, built by Johns Hopkins APL, will fly alongside two other satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9. IMAP is part of NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes pr…