NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe reached its final orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 point on Jan. 10, 2026. From there, the spacecraft measures particles arriving from the distant ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Newswise — Earlier today (Sept. 24), NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA is planning the launch of The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission to explore the edge of the heliosphere, a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our ...

The Sun is an energetic star, constantly radiating energy and pumping streams of charged particles out into space. And while this solar wind can be dangerous in itself, without it, Earth and all the ...

The star that is at the center of our solar system has become in recent years a focal point in our space exploration efforts, with several missions dedicated to studying it making their way into the ...

Three NASA missions are set to launch on a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to study the Sun's influence. The primary mission, IMAP, will travel one million miles from Earth to study the heliosphere and ...

The SwRI-developed Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment (CoDICE) instrument aboard NASA’s IMAP spacecraft measures ions from the solar wind and charged particles from beyond the solar system. Its ...

Credit: NASA HOUSTON—NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has begun its two-year primary mission to explore and map the boundaries of the protective bubble called the heliosphere ...