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A trio of space weather satellites blast off together to study the sun's violent side

A cluster of space weather satellites blasted off Wednesday morning to cast fresh eyes on solar storms that can produce stunning auroras but also scramble communications and threaten astronauts in flight.

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SpaceX launches 3 probes for NASA, NOAA to study space weather

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NASA Launches IMAP Mission to Study the Heliosphere and Better Understand Space Weather

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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket early Thursday morning

SpaceX successfully launched another Falcon 9 rocket early Thursday morning from Florida's Space Coast.

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In battle against space weather, SpaceX launches 3 satellites headed 1 million miles away

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WATCH: SpaceX rocket launches IMAP mission for NASA

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 and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP.

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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 provide continuous monitoring of space weather

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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 million spacecraft carries 10 different science instruments, which it will use to monitor solar activity as well as study interstellar dust and the solar wind, the stream of charged particles flowing continuously from our sun.