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Monika Luabeya Sep 25, 2025 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 24, 2025, carrying three missions that will investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system. NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic…

The Falcon 9 carrying NASA’s IMAP mission transits the disk of the Sun seconds after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now. Update: Launch occurred at 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 UTC). With successful payload deployments complete about 1.5 hours after liftoff. A trio of Sun-studying, marquee missions…

On April 21, 2023, a coronal mass ejection produced a burst of plasma that generated a severe geomagnetic storm on Earth. Credit: NOAA SAN FRANCISCO — Lynker Space is working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to offer space-weather forecasts tailored for operators of power grids and other elements…

Elyna Niles-Carnes Sep 17, 2025 Technicians completed integrating NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite to an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter ring at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida…

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather and explore and map the boundaries of our solar neighborhood. Launching with IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) are two rideshare missions, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

In a shipment of tuna, the labels said one thing but DNA told a different story. To get answers, federal agents turned to FIU's Diego Cardeñosa. The shark conservation biologist traveled to Los Angeles to help officers with the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement master portable DNA testing technologies — fast,…

The National Weather Service has issued a Thunderstorm Watch for much of Massachusetts, in effect until this evening. The alert covers nine counties across the state, including Berkshire, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Worcester. According to meteorologists, atmospheric conditions today are highly favorable for the development of…

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched a series of small, robotic water craft to study the formation and behavior of hurricanes. Photo courtesy of Oshen Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has launched five small, uncrewed research vessels off the U.S. Virgin Islands to…

Soon, there will be three new ways to study the Sun’s influence across the solar system with the launch of a trio of NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) spacecraft. Expected to launch no earlier than Tuesday, Sept. 23, the missions include NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration…

A group of technicians works to complete final inspections and checkouts of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft inside a cleanroom at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. Image: John Pisani / Spaceflight Now Technicians inside a pair of clean rooms at the Astrotech facility in Titusville, Florida,…