Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the NASA IMAP mission, which launched at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 24. from NASA's ...

The NASA IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) completed its critical design review (CDR). In this undated handout, an artist's rendering shows one of four planets found orbiting the star ...

NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission has successfully captured its first light observations, marking a significant step toward unveiling the mysteries of space weather and ...

A protective bubble comprised of solar wind plasma surrounds the entire solar system. Known as the heliosphere, this bubble exists because the solar wind’s momentum eventually slows down enough that ...

A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe will track invisible particles ...

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 ...

NASA launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, September 24. NASA is gearing up to launch the Interstellar Mapping ...

MONKEYS ARE DOING WELL. AN UPCOMING NASA MISSION WILL BE FEATURING A MAJOR PIECE OF TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED BY A TEAM FROM UNH. THE IMAP MISSION WILL HELP SCIENTISTS LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUN’S ...

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NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which ...