IMAP Media Day

The two rideshare spacecraft on NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission – NASA’s exosphere-studying Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) observatory – sit on spacecraft dollies in a high bay inside Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida during a NASA-hosted media day on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. The missions will orbit the Sun near Lagrange point 1, about one million miles from Earth.