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Sept 24, 2025
SpaceX Falcon 9 IMAP/SWFO-L1/GLIDE Missions

Launched: 7:30 AM EDT
Launch site: Space Launch Complex (SLC) 39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Booster: B1096, 2nd Flight

Payload:
IMAP
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) will help researchers better understand the boundary of the heliosphere, a magnetic barrier surrounding our solar system.

NOAA SWFO-L1
Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) is a spacecraft planned to monitor signs of solar storms, which can harm to Earth's telecommunication network.

GLIDE (Carruthers Geocorona Observatory)
The Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) is a NASA mission led by Univ of Illinois Engineering to measurement far UV light emitted in Earth's exosphere, which extends almost halfway to the moon.

Viewing Site: Kennedy Space Center (Press Site), FL

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PreFlight (Day Before)

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Launch Time!


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VIDEOS

Pre-Dawn

Prelude: Fueling

20 Minute Pre-Launch Vent

Liftoff (Camera 1 Tracking)

Camera 5 Stationary

Camera 4 Stationary Wide Angle

Camera 2 Tracking

Camera 3 Tracking

Remote Camera

Time-Lapse Wide Angle




Booster recovery: Drone Ship 'Just Read the Instructions' (JRTI) in Atlantic Ocean

Stats:
2025: 206th orbital launch

SpaceX:
560th mission, 120th mission of 2025

Falcon 9:
534th mission, 116th mission of 2025






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