NASA, NOAA Launch Three Spacecraft to Map Sun's Influence Across Space

The IMAP mission will chart the boundary of the heliosphere, a bubble inflated by the solar wind that shields our solar system from galactic cosmic rays...NOAA's SWFO-L1 is designed to be a full-time operational space weather observatory...The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory is the first mission dedicated to recording changes in the outermost layer of our atmosphere, the exosphere...