
Recently, NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), along with the agency's Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-1) spacecraft, were encapsulated inside the payload fairing of their SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
These three spacecraft embarked on a shared ride to orbit early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24).