STORIE Launch and Install on the Space Station

Released Friday, May 22, 2026

ID: 15043

- Produced by:
- Lacey Young

NASA’s STORIE (Storm Time O+ Ring current Imaging Evolution) mission launched at 6:05 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 15, 2026, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Learn more: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasas-storie-mission-to-tell-tale-of-earths-ring-current/

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After arriving at the International Space Station, the Space Test Program – Houston 11 (STP-H11) payload and STORIE were installed by robotic arm on the outside of the Columbus module in May 19, 2026. From there, it will look outward at the ring current — a doughnut-shaped swarm of charged particles around Earth, helping scientists answer longstanding questions about how it grows and shrinks and what kind of particles it’s made of.

Credit: NASA

Video – Launch Clean Feed

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft atop, launched on Friday, May 15, 2026, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as part of the company’s 34th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Dragon delivered about 6,500 pounds of science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.

Credit: SpaceX