NASA Prelaunch News Conference on Three New Space Weather Missions (Sept. 21, 2025)

Experts from NASA, NOAA, and the Space Force will discuss three new missions to study space weather and its impacts on the solar system.

IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) are targeted to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:32 a.m. EDT (1132 UTC), Tuesday, Sept. 23.

The participants in the news conference are:

Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
Brad Williams, IMAP program executive, NASA Headquarters
Irene Parker, deputy assistant administrator for Systems at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, NASA Kennedy
Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX
Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force