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

Three new missions to track space weather are launching on a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Sept. 23: NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NOAA's Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), and NASA's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. These probes and telescopes will help researchers monitor and study the Sun, the near-Earth environment, and the heliosphere.

Participants from NASA, NOAA, and participating universities will discuss the science of the missions and answer questions from the media.

Participants in the news conference include:

Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
David J. McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jamie Favors, director, Space Weather Program, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
Clinton Wallace, Director, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
Dr. James Spann, Senior Scientist, NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations