TWO NASA/NOAA PRE-LAUNCH NEWS CONFERENCES FOR SPACE WEATHER MISSIONS, Sept 21, 2025, KSC, 2:30 pm ET/3:45 pm ET

NASA and NOAA will hold two pre-launch news conferences on September 21, 2025 in advance of the launch of three satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1).

The launch is scheduled for September 23 at 7:32 am ET.  All three are headed to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point 1 million miles from Earth in the direction of the Sun. More information on the spacecraft is in NASA’s press release.

Participants in the first briefing at 2:30 pm ET are:

• Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ
• Brad Williams, IMAP program executive, NASA Headquarters
• Irene Parker, deputy assistant administrator for Systems at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, NASA Kennedy
• Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX
• Arlena Moses, launch weather officer, 45th Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force

Participants in the second briefing at 3:45 pm ET are:

• Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• David McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
• Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Jamie Favors, director, Space Weather Program, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• Clinton Wallace, director, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
• James Spann, senior scientist, NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations

Both news conferences will air on NASA’s website and YouTube channel.