{"id":162513,"date":"2025-09-23T03:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162513\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:39:17","slug":"watch-spacex-launch-3-space-weather-probes-early-on-sept-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162513\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX launch 3 space weather probes early on Sept. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three New Missions Launch to Track Space Weather – YouTube
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SpaceX will launch NASA’s ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> in Florida on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT), carrying IMAP and two rideshare spacecraft deep into the final frontier.<\/p>\n

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency<\/a>. Coverage is expected to will begin around 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT).<\/p>\n

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From left to right, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions will map our sun’s influence across the solar system in new ways. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

The primary payload is IMAP<\/a>, whose name is short for “Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.”<\/p>\n

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IMAP “will study how the sun’s energy and particles interact with the heliosphere \u2014 an enormous protective bubble of space around our solar system<\/a> \u2014 to enhance our understanding of space weather<\/a>, cosmic radiation, and their impacts on Earth and human and robotic space explorers,” NASA officials wrote in a mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Launching with IMAP are NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (CGO) and the Space Weather Follow-on (SWFO-L1) spacecraft, which will be operated by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).<\/p>\n

CGO will study Earth’s exosphere \u2014 the atmosphere’s wispiest outer reaches \u2014 to help scientists better understand how space weather affects our planet. SWFO-L1 will monitor and track solar storms<\/a>, “serving as an early warning beacon for potentially disruptive space weather, helping safeguard Earth\u2019s critical infrastructure and technological-dependent industries,” NASA officials wrote in the mission description.<\/p>\n

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The trio will do this work at the Earth-sun Lagrange Point-1<\/a> (L1), a gravitationally stable spot that lies 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet. Several other spacecraft operate at L1, including India’s Aditya-L1<\/a> solar probe and the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), a joint effort of NASA and the European Space Agency.<\/p>\n

If all goes according to plan on Wednesday, the Falcon 9’s upper stage will deploy IMAP, CGO and SWFO-L1 into interplanetary transfer orbit during a 13-minute stretch that begins about 83 minutes after liftoff. The three spacecraft will then make their way out to L1.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 4:25 p.m. ET on Sept. 22 with the new target launch date of Sept. 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three New Missions Launch to Track Space Weather – YouTube Watch On SpaceX will launch NASA’s ambitious IMAP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-162513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}