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Slated to launch no earlier than September 2025, IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere — the protective bubble surrounding the Sun and planets that is inflated by the constant stream of particles from the Sun called the solar wind.

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IMAP’s Magnetometer (MAG) instrument is integrated onto the spacecraft.

Credit: NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

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Learn more about IMAP.Below are conceptual animations highlighting the IMAP spacecraft. || ", "release_date": "2025-08-14T00:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-09-17T16:58:27.554849-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1158444, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a020000/a020400/a020410/20410_IMAP_5k_Spin_NoLogo_2-002.00001_print.jpg", "filename": "20410_IMAP_5k_Spin_NoLogo_2-002.00001_print.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Conceptual AnimationThe IMAP spacecraft, located at Lagrange Point 1, spins at four revolutions per minute as it surveys the heliosphere.Credit: NASA/Princeton/Patrick McPike", "width": 1024, "height": 576, "pixels": 589824 } } ], "sources": [], "products": [ { "id": 14895, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14895/", "page_type": "Produced Video", "title": "Mapping the Boundaries of Our Home in Space with NASA’s IMAP Mission", "description": "NASA’s new Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will explore and map the very boundaries of our heliosphere — a huge bubble created by the Sun's wind that encapsulates our solar system — and study how that boundary interacts with the local galactic neighborhood beyond.As a modern-day celestial cartographer, IMAP will chart the vast range of particles in interplanetary space, helping to investigate two of the most important overarching issues in heliophysics — the energization of charged particles from the Sun, and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar space. Additionally, IMAP will support near real-time observations of the solar wind and energetic particles, which can produce hazardous conditions in the space environment near Earth. IMAP is launching no earlier than Sept. 23, 2025, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Learn more about IMAP science: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-imap-mission-to-study-boundaries-of-our-home-in-space/Find out more about the IMAP mission: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/imap/ || ", "release_date": "2025-09-17T10:00:00-04:00", "update_date": "2025-09-15T14:21:58.200579-04:00", "main_image": { "id": 1158230, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a014800/a014895/14895_Thumbnail.jpg", "filename": "14895_Thumbnail.jpg", "media_type": "Image", "alt_text": "Produced VideoWatch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.Complete transcript available.Music credit: \"Soaring Dreams” by Klas Johan Wahl and Anders Paul Niska [STIM], “Electric Works” by Philippe Lhommet [SACEM], and “Mercurial Temperment” by Christian Telfold [ASCAP] from Universal Production Music", "width": 1280, "height": 720, "pixels": 921600 } } ], "newer_versions": [], "older_versions": [], "alternate_versions": [] }