NASA Selects Heliophysics Missions of Opportunity for Space Science Research and Technology Demonstration

Space Daily

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2020

NASA has selected two SmallSat missions - a study of Earth's outer most atmosphere and a solar sail spaceflight test mission - to share a ride to space in 2025 with the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The missions - the Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) and Solar Cruiser - were selected as Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Missions of Opportuni

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