Launch Overview
Vehicle
Falcon 9
Agency
SpaceX
Site / Pad
KSC / LC39A
Outcome
Success
Flight
518/B1096.2 F539
COSPAR Designator
2025-215
Mission
IMAP & others (Heliophysics)
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.
Vehicle & Provider
Rocket
Falcon 9 Block 5
Provider
SpaceX
Agency launches
574 (125 YTD)
Site launches
273 (21 YTD)
Pad launches
215 (21 YTD)