China's Shenzhou-21 Astronauts Blast Off For Space Station
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Live updates from the Starlink 10-37 mission, which launched 12:35 p.m. Oct. 29 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Liftoff is scheduled for 7:30 a.m. ET today (Sept. 24). SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Wednesday morning (Sept. 24), and you can watch the action live.
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IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 million spacecraft carries 10 different science instruments, which it will use to monitor solar activity as well as study interstellar dust and the solar wind, the stream of charged particles flowing continuously from our sun.
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