NASA’s IMAP Mission Releases New Data From 7 Science Instruments

NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission has released new data from seven of its science instruments. Following a successful launch on September 24, 2025, IMAP's prime mission commenced on February 1 of the following year. All ten instruments on the spacecraft have been collecting data since its launch. Although three instruments still have data pending release, the science data gathered by seven instruments up to April 30 is now accessible.

This data can be obtained from NASA's Space Physics Data Facility and directly from the IMAP website at imap.princeton.edu/data. The available instruments include:

1. MAG – A magnetometer developed by Imperial College London that measures the interplanetary magnetic field originating from the Sun.

2. SWAPI – An instrument by Princeton University that measures ions from the solar wind and particles from beyond our solar system.

3. HIT – A High-energy Ion Telescope by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center that studies high-energy ions from the solar wind and deep space.

4. GLOWS – A Global Solar Wind Structure instrument by the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences that investigates the ultraviolet glow produced by the solar wind.

5. SWE – A Solar Wind Electron instrument by Los Alamos National Laboratory that measures electrons in the solar wind.

6. CoDICE – A Compact Dual Ion Composition Experiment instrument by the Southwest Research Institute that measures the mass and electric charge of ions from interstellar space and the solar wind.

7. IDEX – An Interstellar Dust Experiment instrument by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics that measures the composition of interstellar and interplanetary dust particles.