Please note that the launch has been pushed back to Wednesday 24 September. If you have registered you will have received an email notification and do not need to register again to attend.
Imperial is one of 25 international institutions working on the IMAP Mission led by Princeton University in partnership with NASA and the UK Space Agency.
Join us to watch the live stream of the launch from the Kennedy Space Centre and learn more about IMAP and the team behind it at Imperial.
Please note that this event is for students and staff at Imperial College London
About IMAP
Launching from the Kennedy Space Centre, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is a NASA heliophysics mission that will simultaneously investigate the acceleration of energetic particles and the interaction of the solar wind with the local interstellar medium. The magnetometer instrument (MAG) built and led by Imperial, will join 9 other instruments in a mission designed to answer fundamental questions about the place of our solar system in the surrounding interstellar medium.
Princeton University professor, David J. McComas, leads the IMAP mission and an international team of 25 partner institutions. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland is managing the mission development, building the IMAP spacecraft, and providing the mission operation. IMAP is the fifth mission in NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Program portfolio of the Heliophysics Division in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The IMAP mission is made possible through the incredible team collaborative efforts of 19 domestic and 6 international partners.