Launch success with acquisition of signal from all 3 spacecraft.
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This page records Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a NASA mission to study interactions between solar wind and the local interstellar medium. Carrying a suite of 10 scientific instruments, IMAP is able to investigate how particles are accelerated, determine their composition, as well as help to advance space weather forecasting models. The IMAP launch also includes the space weather satellite SWFO-L1 (Space Weather Follow-On - L1) for NOAA and the GLIDE (Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere/Carruthers Geocorona Observatory) mission to study far ultraviolet emission in the Earth's exosphere.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Mission type
- Heliophysics
- Destination orbit
- Heliocentric L1
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Recovery
- Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship, The Falcon 9 1st stage B1096 has landed on ASDS JRTI after its 2nd flight. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon 9 Block 5
Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 3.65 m
- Stages
- 2
- Recorded launches
- 537
- First flight
- 2018-05-11
Recorded timing
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0.25 minute windowPublished target
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WINDOW CLOSES
Target ·
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Weather concerns
Cumulus Cloud Rule
Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:38:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:35:00
Prop Load
- T−00:16:00
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
- T−00:01:00
Tank Press
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- T−00:01:00
Startup
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:03
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:12
Max-Q
- T+00:02:29
MECO
- T+00:02:32
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:02:40
SES-1
- T+00:03:12
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:37
Entry Burn Startup
- T+00:07:07
Entry Burn Shutdown
- T+00:07:52
SECO-1
- T+00:08:20
Stage 1 Landing Burn
- T+00:08:45
Stage 1 Landing
- T+01:12:28
SES-2
- T+01:13:30
SECO-2
- T+01:23:51
Payload Separation
- T+01:30:26
Payload Separation
- T+01:36:46
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Launch site
DestinationHeliocentric L1
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