# Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others: launch

> Falcon 9 Block 5 by SpaceX from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Flown: Success.

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## Facts

- Launch: Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
- Mission: IMAP & others
- Provider: SpaceX
- Rocket: Falcon 9 Block 5
- Pad: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country of the launch site: USA
- Date (UTC): Wed, Sep 24, 11:30 UTC (2025-09-24T11:30:50.000Z)
- Launch window: 2025-09-24 11:30 UTC to 2025-09-24 11:30 UTC
- Status: completed (Launch Library 2: Success)
- Outcome: Success
- Real slips recorded: 0; other date moves (placeholder rolls, firmings), not slips: 0

## Mission description

Quoted from Launch Library 2: IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.

## Date history

No date change recorded for this launch since our ledger began.

## Sources

- [Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs](https://thespacedevs.com): launch names, providers, rockets, pads, dates and status
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- [Mission information (link from Launch Library 2)](https://www.spacelaunchnow.me/launch/falcon-9-block-5-imap-others)

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