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‘Ultimate Cosmic Carpool’ Sends Three New Missions to Monitor Space Weather and the Protective Bubble Around Our Solar System

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...
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SpaceX launches 3 probes to study space weather and map the boundaries of our solar system (video)

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

Space weather satellites blast off to collect information on solar storms

A SpaceX rocket lifted off Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA's Interstellar Mapping ...

CCOR-2 coronagraph set to boost space weather forecasting capabilities

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Compact Coronagraph-2 (CCOR-2) launched at 7:30 a.m. EDT on September 24 onboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Space Weather Follow ...
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NASA's IMAP spacecraft getting packed up for launch | Space photo of the day for Sept. 24, 2025

This spacecraft is one of three dedicated to studying solar wind and its effects on space weather. It launched today (Sept.