NASA MEDIA TELECON ON IMAP AND CARRUTHERS, Sept 4, 2025, virtual, 12:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a media telecon on September 4, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET to discuss the upcoming launch of two NASA spacecraft, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory. They and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-on Lagrange-1, SWFO-L1, will all launch together on a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Sapce Center on Sepember 23, 2025.

NOAA gave a briefing on SWFO-L1 earlier.

More information about IMAP and Carruthers are in NASA’s press release.

Participants in the NASA briefing are:

• Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA Headquarters
• Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, director, Moon to Mars Space Weather Analysis Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• David J. McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
• Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website at: https://www.nasa.gov/live