NASA will maintain a media teleconference at 12 p.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 4, to debate the company’s upcoming Solar and area climate missions, IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. The 2 missions are focusing on launch on the identical rocket no sooner than Tuesday, Sept. 23.
The IMAP mission will map the boundaries of our heliosphere, the huge bubble created by the Solar’s wind that encapsulates our total photo voltaic system. As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will discover how the heliosphere interacts with interstellar area, in addition to chart the vary of particles that fill the area between the planets. The IMAP mission additionally will assist close to real-time observations of the photo voltaic wind and energetic particles. These energetic particles can produce hazardous area climate that may impression spacecraft and different NASA {hardware} because the company explores deeper into area, together with on the Moon below the Artemis marketing campaign.
NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory will picture the ultraviolet glow of Earth’s exosphere, the outermost area of our planet’s ambiance. This information will assist scientists perceive how area climate from the Solar shapes the exosphere and finally impacts our planet. The primary commentary of this glow – known as the geocorona – was captured throughout Apollo 16, when a telescope designed and constructed by George Carruthers was deployed on the Moon.
Audio of the teleconference will stream dwell on the company’s web site at:
Individuals embody:
- Nicky Fox, affiliate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters in Washington
- Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, director, Moon to Mars House Climate Evaluation Workplace, NASA’s Goddard House Flight Middle in Greenbelt, Maryland
- David J. McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton College
- Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
To take part within the media teleconference, media should RSVP no later than 11 a.m. on Sept. 4 to Sarah Frazier at: sarah.frazier@nasa.gov. NASA’s media accreditation coverage is offered on-line.
The IMAP and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory missions will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Advanced 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida. Additionally launching on this flight would be the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) House Climate Comply with On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), which is able to monitor photo voltaic wind disturbances and detect and observe coronal mass ejections earlier than they attain Earth.
David McComas, professor, Princeton College, leads the IMAP mission with a global workforce of 27 companion establishments. The Johns Hopkins Utilized Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, constructed the spacecraft and can function the mission. NASA’s IMAP is the fifth mission in NASA’s Photo voltaic Terrestrial Probes Program portfolio.
The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory mission is led by Lara Waldrop from the College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Mission implementation is led by the House Sciences Laboratory at College of California, Berkeley, which additionally designed and constructed the 2 ultraviolet imagers. BAE Methods designed and constructed the Carruthers spacecraft.
The Photo voltaic Terrestrial Probes Program Workplace, a part of the Explorers and Heliophysics Venture Division at NASA Goddard, manages the IMAP and Carruthers Geocorona Observatory missions for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.
NASA’s Launch Providers Program, based mostly at NASA Kennedy, manages the launch service for the mission.
To study extra about IMAP, please go to:
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Abbey Interrante / Karen Fox
Headquarters, Washington
301-201-0124 / 202-358-1600
abbey.a.interrante@nasa.gov / karen.c.fox@nasa.gov
Sarah Frazier
Goddard House Flight Middle, Greenbelt, Md.
202-853-7191
sarah.frazier@nasa.gov
