Starship completes a full-duration static fire ahead of the eleventh flight test
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Falcon 9 is vertical at pad 39A ahead of tomorrow’s launch of NASA’s IMAP mission. Liftoff is targeted for 7:30 a.m. ET, and weather is currently 90% favorable → spacex.com/launches/imap
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IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, the large bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system
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IMAP will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, the large bubble created by the solar wind that encapsulates our entire solar system
Falcon 9 will launch IMAP into a transfer orbit on its journey to the Earth-Sun L1 Lagrange Point – a gravitationally stable region 1.5 million km from Earth that offers clear vantage points to study the sun, space weather, and Earth's exosphere
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Rideshare missions provide an opportunity to cost-effectively launch multiple spacecraft and maximize the amount of science sent to space on a single mission → spacex.com/rideshare
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship
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Deployment of SWF0-L1 confirmed
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Deployment of Carruthers Geocorona Observatory confirmed
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