2025-09-24 13:38
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2025-09-24 13:38
The NASA probe for the Heliosphere test started on Wednesday from the Kennedy (KSC) Space Center in Florida in the United States. On board the spacecraft is, among others Polish instrument for examining solar wind.
Falcon 9 Rocket from SpaceX on Wednesday at 13.32 of Polish time took the NASA probe into space – IMAP (Interstellar mapping and Acceleration Probe).
IMAP will help to examine two important scientific issues in the heliosfer: acceleration of energy particles and solar wind interactions with a local interstellar center.
As explained on the NASA website, the mission will use 10 scientific instruments to prepare a comprehensive image of what is happening in space – from high -energy particles from the sun, through magnetic fields in interplanetary space, to the remains of stars that exploded.
One of these devices is the Polish GLOWS (Global Solar Wind Structure), photometer designed and made at the PAS Space Research Center.
🚀Floffff of the Spacex Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center!
🛰️ GO IMAP!
🛰️ GO SWFO-L1!
🛰️ Go Carruts! pic.twitter.com/w2tydgborm– Nasa's Kennedy Space Center (@nasakennedy) Seprsege 24, 2025
The device is to examine the structure of the solar wind – it is to observe a glow in a distant ultraviolet. It will register photons (i.e. elementary particles, light quantums) with a wavelength of 121.5 nanometers, which is called Liman-alfa. This strand of long ultraviolet does not reach the earth's surface because it is absorbed by the atmosphere. Observations of this wavelength must therefore be carried out in space. (PAP)
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