The A stream of charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, that escapes into the Sun's outer atmosphere at high speeds and streams out into the solar system in all directions. and Pick Up An atom that has become electrically charged by the gain or loss of one or more electrons. (The Solar Wind and Pickup Ion (SWAPI) instrument collects and counts solar wind particles and pick-up ions (PUIs).) instrument, developed at Princeton University under the leadership of Dr. Jamie S. Rankin, has officially been integrated into NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, MD. This integration represents a key milestone in NASA…
By Hayley Dunning
Join our researchers as they install their instrument on NASA’s IMAP spacecraft, set to launch next year on a mission to study the A stream of charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, that escapes into the Sun's outer atmosphere at high speeds and streams out into the solar system in all directions..
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft will observe and map the Sun’s The bubble-like region surrounding the solar system inflated by the solar wind, shielding the solar system from interstellar radiation. – the volume of space filled with particles streaming out from…
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Scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard are poised to deliver a new instrument, the High-energy An atom that has become electrically charged by the gain or loss of one or more electrons. Telescope (The High-energy Ion Telescope (HIT) collects, measures, and maps very energetic particles coming through the heliosphere, as well as those flowing from the Sun. Near real-time energetic particle data collected by HIT will be used to better predict and warn scientists about Earth-bound solar storm activity.), which is a solar energetic particle (SEP) An instrument which is used to discover that something is present somewhere, or to measure how much of something there is.. HIT is critical to NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission to explore our solar…
By Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications.
On Monday, April 8, the moon will pass between the Earth and the Sun for about four hours. For a few precious minutes, the Moon will completely block our view of our favorite star for people in the “path of totality.” Here in New Jersey, just outside that path, the…
Another of the instruments planned for flight aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is ready for installation on the spacecraft.
IMAP-Ultra is one of 10 instruments contributed from across 25 partner institutions on the Princeton-led IMAP mission set to launch in…
An instrument built by Imperial College London physicists is on its way to be fitted onto NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft.
The Imperial-built instrument, called The Magnetometer (MAG) instrument measures the strength and direction of the magnetic field in interplanetary space as the field is carried past the IMAP spacecraft by the solar wind. It consists of two fluxgate magnetometers installed on a boom arm that will deploy post-launch, extending the instruments away from the spacecraft to minimize magnetic interference of spacecraft and instrument electrical systems., will play a key role in helping IMAP study the A stream of charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, that escapes into the Sun's outer atmosphere at high speeds and streams out into the solar system in all directions. following its launch in 2025. MAG is a A device used to measure the intensity and direction of the local magnetic field.,…
Scientists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder will soon take part in an effort to collect a bit of stardust — the tiny bits of matter that flow through the The band of light that appears to encircle the sky, as viewed from Earth, caused by the light from many stars lying near the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy; also sometimes used to refer to the Galaxy in which the Sun belongs. A huge collection of millions to trillions of stars and their planetary systems held together by gravity, and the gas, plasma, and dust that are also gravitationally held to the galaxy. The galaxy our solar system is found in is called the Milky Way. and were once the initial building blocks of our solar system.
The pursuit is part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP)…
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has successfully completed Key Decision Point D (KDP-D). This milestone allows the mission to move from development and design to the assembly, testing, and integration phase. IMAP’s planned launch date, which was no earlier than February 2025, was also reevaluated during the KDP-D and was…
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) marked the completion of an important step on the path to spacecraft assembly, test, and launch operations this week at Johns Hopkin Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).
The team met with a review panel to evaluate the plan for integrating all systems onto the spacecraft, such as…
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) is embarking on its yearlong integration and testing campaign, during which all of the instruments and components will be added to the spacecraft structure, tested to ensure they will survive the harsh environments of launch and space, and made ready to execute its mission.
On Sept…
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission held a critical design review (CDR) this week with a NASA Standing Review Board. This mission-level review was the culmination of individual CDRs conducted for all the instruments and subsystems. While there are still challenges ahead to face as a team, the review board is…
McComas has made seminal contributions through innovative mission and instrumentation development that have benefited and supported the entire scientific community and led ground-breaking observations, analysis, and discovery of fundamental physics of the The bubble-like region surrounding the solar system inflated by the solar wind, shielding the solar system from interstellar radiation. and the very local interstellar medium, the A stream of charged particles, mostly protons and electrons, that escapes into the Sun's outer atmosphere at high speeds and streams out into the solar system in all directions., and the Earth’s and…
The European Geosciences Union (EGU) announced today that David McComas is a recipient of the 2022 Hannes Alfvén Medal for his Plasma consists of a gas heated to sufficiently high temperatures that the atoms ionize. The properties of the gas are controlled by electromagnetic forces among constituent ions and electrons, which results in different behavior than gas made primarily of neutral atoms like the Earth’s atmosphere. Plasma is often considered the fourth state of matter (besides solid, liquid, and gas). Most of the matter in the Universe is in the plasma state. physics research.
“These individuals are honored for their important contributions to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences,” said the EGU in their announcement.
The Hannes…
NASA and the UK Space Agency have agreed to cooperate on NASA’s The study of the Sun and its connection to the solar system, including the physical processes that occur in the space environment. mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The agreement, signed Sept. 22, 2021, will allow Imperial College London to design and build one of IMAP’s 10 instruments – a A device used to measure the intensity and direction of the local magnetic field. called The Magnetometer (MAG) instrument measures the strength and direction of the magnetic field in interplanetary space as the field is carried past the IMAP spacecraft by the solar wind. It consists of two fluxgate magnetometers installed on a boom arm that will deploy post-launch, extending the instruments away from the spacecraft to minimize magnetic interference of spacecraft and instrument electrical systems. – as well as provide ground support and personnel…
NASA and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland agreed on Dec. 30 to cooperate on a NASA The study of the Sun and its connection to the solar system, including the physical processes that occur in the space environment. mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), which is led by Princeton’s…
NASA and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA The study of the Sun and its connection to the solar system, including the physical processes that occur in the space environment. mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The agreement, signed Dec. 30, 2020, will allow the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN) to design and build one of IMAP’s…
To accommodate schedule changes due to precautions regarding COVID-19, the preliminary design review for NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, has been moved from February to May 2021. Similarly, the launch readiness date is delayed from Oct. 1, 2024, to Feb. 1, 2025.
Over the course of its mission, IMAP…
NASA has selected a science mission planned for launch in 2024 that will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.
The Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission will help researchers better understand the boundary of the…