Events for September 2025 – SpaceCoverageOnline.com

NASA and NOAA will maintain two pre-launch information conferences on September 21, 2025 upfront of the launch of three satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket: NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1).

The launch is scheduled for September 23 at 7:32 am ET.  All three are headed to the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange level 1 million miles from Earth within the path of the Sun. More data on the spacecraft is in NASA’s press release.

Participants within the first briefing at 2:30 pm ET are:

• Nicky Fox, affiliate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, NASA HQ
• Brad Williams, IMAP program govt, NASA Headquarters
• Irene Parker, deputy assistant administrator for Systems at NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
• Denton Gibson, launch director, NASA’s Launch Services Program, NASA Kennedy
• Julianna Scheiman, director, NASA Science Missions, SpaceX
• Arlena Moses, launch climate officer, forty fifth Weather Squadron, U.S. Space Force

Participants within the second briefing at 3:45 pm ET are:

• Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• David McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
• Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Jamie Favors, director, Space Weather Program, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
• Clinton Wallace, director, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
• James Spann, senior scientist, NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations

Both information conferences will air on NASA’s website and YouTube channel.