Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
Falcon 9 Block 5 launched the IMAP & others mission for SpaceX from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA on Sep 24, 2025 (UTC).
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A · Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
Launched Sep 24, 2025 8:30:50 PMSuccess
Flight direction
90° E
orbit unknown: due east assumed
Flight path
First-stage drop zone (rough estimate)
Drawn 400–700 km downrange along the flight direction. Official hazard areas are published as NOTAMs and navigational warnings.
About the mission
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.
Mission description from Launch Library 2.
- Launch time (your time zone)
- Wed, Sep 24 · 8:30:50 PM
- Status
- Success
- Launch provider
- SpaceX
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Target orbit
- L1-point
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A · Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA