Imperial College London (ICL) is to design and build an instrument for NASA - a magnetometer - for its heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and A
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The UK Space Agency and NASA have agreed to work together on a mission to observe and map the heliosphere - the area of space surrounding the Sun filled with charged particles known as the solar
The UK Space Agency and NASA have agreed to work together on a mission to observe and map the heliosphere - the area of space surrounding the Sun filled with charged particles known as the solar wind.
Lindsay Bartolone, IMAP Communications Lead
Jan. 14, 2021 7:30 a.m.
NASA and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland agreed on Dec. 30 to cooperate on a NASA heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), which is led by Princeton s David McComas, a professor of astrophysical sciences.
The agreement will allow the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences to design and build one of IMAP’s 10 instruments the Global Solar Wind Structure (GLOWS) instrument as well as provide ground support and personnel necessary to support the instrument and the IMAP science team.
NASA and Poland will cooperate to build an instrument for the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), a mission to the outer edge of the solar system that is led by Princeton s David McComas.