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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - A Rocket in the Sun

    09/27/2025 1:19:56 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 19 replies
    NASA ^ | 27 Sep, 2025 | Image Credit & Copyright: Pascal Fouquet
    Explanation: On the morning of September 24 a rocket crosses the bright solar disk in this long range telescopic snapshot captured from Orlando, Florida. That's about 50 miles north of its Kennedy Space Center launch site. This rocket carried three new space weather missions to space. Signals have now been successfully acquired from all three - NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) - as they begin their journey to L1, an Earth-Sun lagrange point. L1 is about 1.5 million kilometers in the...
  • NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun's Influence Across Space

    09/27/2025 1:24:06 PM PDT · by zeestephen · 11 replies
    Watts Up With That ^ | 25 September 2025 | Anthony Watts
    The IMAP mission will chart the boundary of the heliosphere, a bubble inflated by the solar wind that shields our solar system from galactic cosmic rays...NOAA's SWFO-L1 is designed to be a full-time operational space weather observatory...The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission dedicated to recording changes in the outermost layer of our atmosphere, the exosphere...