NASA to launch IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO with support from Astrotech’s commercial facility

NASA to launch IMAP, Carruthers, and SWFO with support from Astrotech’s commercial facility

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’s 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’s premier spacecraft processing hubs. more…