IMAP & others
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 timeline
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Latitude
- 28.608°N
- Longitude
- 80.604°W
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
- Primary concern
- Cumulus Cloud Rule
- Rule count
- 1
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
11:30 AM UTC – 11:30 AM UTC
Vehicle & provider
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.