A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sept. 24, 2025, carrying three missions that will investigate the Sun’s influence across the solar system.
NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), the agency’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) spacecraft will each focus on different effects of the solar wind – the continuous stream of particles emitted by the Sun – and space weather – the changing conditions in space driven by the Sun – from their origins at the Sun to their farthest reaches billions of miles away at the edge of our solar system.
Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
2025年9月24日，一枚SpaceX猎鹰9号火箭从美国国家航空航天局（NASA）位于佛罗里达州的肯尼迪航天中心成功发射，搭载着三项任务，旨在研究太阳对整个太阳系的影响。
此次发射任务包括：NASA的星际测绘与加速探测器（IMAP）、卡鲁瑟斯日冕层天文台（Carruthers Geocorona Observatory），以及美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的太空天气后续任务——拉格朗日1号（SWFO-L1）航天器。它们将分别聚焦于太阳风——太阳持续释放的粒子流——以及由太阳驱动的空间天气，即太空中不断变化的环境状况，从其源头太阳出发，深入探测其在数十亿英里之外、直至太阳系边缘的影响。
图片来源: NASA/Kim Shiflett
