2025-215 Success

Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others

Sep 24, 2025, 11:30 AM UTC

Track in KeepTrack

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)

Payloads (3)

Piece Name Owner State Track
2025-215A IMAP APL/GSFC US Track
2025-215B SWFO-L1 NOAA/NESD US Track
2025-215C Carruthers GSFC US Track