The IMAP launch is scheduled for September 2025

Recently NASA announced that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the IMAP satellite will lift off in September 2025. In addition to our mission, the rocket will take two other smaller satellites that will also operate at the L1 Lagrange point: the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory (an instrument that will observe ultraviolet light emitted by Earth’s atmosphere) and Space Weather Follow On (a suite of instruments for observing the outer layers of the Sun and the solar wind).

GLOWS is already attached to the IMAP satellite body and patiently awaits launch.

More details can be found in the official press release published by NASA.