SpaceX Launches IMAP Mission To Interplanetary Transfer Orbit

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft lifted off at 1130 UTC from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Falcon 9 first(B1096) stage returned about 8 minutes after launch