On September 24, 2025, at 7:30 a.m. EST, NASA successfully launched the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The mission marks a major step forward in heliophysics, expanding our understanding of the solar system’s boundary and the forces that shape it.

If successful, ADSEP-PIL-11 could lead to better cancer drugs and demonstrate the unique value of the ISS for biotechnology. Just like other space experiments, what we learn in orbit has the potential to benefit people all over the planet.  

Explore some of the science in the payload heading to the ISS on the NG-23 launch. Growing the Future of Electronics in Space