{"id":221317,"date":"2025-09-02T15:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nasa-to-launch-imap-carruthers-and-swfo-with-support-from-astrotechs-commercial-facility"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:03:21","slug":"nasa-to-launch-imap-carruthers-and-swfo-with-support-from-astrotechs-commercial-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/nasa-to-launch-imap-carruthers-and-swfo-with-support-from-astrotechs-commercial-facility","title":{"rendered":"NASA to launch IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO with support from Astrotech\u2019s commercial facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-to-launch-imap-carruthers-and-swfo-with-support-from-astrotechs-commercial-facility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA is gearing up for a landmark late-September launch featuring three pivotal spacecraft: the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO-L1). The missions are being prepared at Astrotech Space Operations, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary in Titusville that has become one of the nation\u2019s premier spacecraft processing hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Astrotech regularly integrates spacecraft for NASA, the Department of Defense, and commercial providers, and recently hosted media for a rare look inside its cleanroom facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Under the leadership of Principal Investigator David McComas, professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, and built by Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/imap\/\">IMAP<\/a> continues the legacy of NASA\u2019s 2008 IBEX mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is gearing up for a landmark late-September launch featuring three pivotal spacecraft: the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA\u2019s Space Weather Follow-On (SWFO-L1). The missions are being prepared at Astrotech Space Operations, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary in Titusville that has become one of the nation\u2019s premier spacecraft processing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}