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by studying how interplanetary space changes in response to the constant outpouring of energy and particles from the Sun and how it interacts with planetary atmospheres. It was expected to launch as a rideshare payload alongside
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was awarded US$ 65 million for mission execution. Previously, US$ 400,000 for nine-month mission concept studies was presented to the
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as propulsion and facilitate views of the Sun not easily accessible with current technology, such as a close-up view of its poles.
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in February 2025. However, the spacecraft was not selected for further development and project closeout efforts concluded in 2023.
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spacecraft would have demonstrated solar sailing around the Sun at an unusual polar orbit, while its
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was not approved for advancement to phase C of its development cycle.
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The mission had been selected to launch along with NASA's
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instrument would enable simultaneous measurements of the
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Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere
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Index

Technology
Heliophysics
NASA
Solar sail
Falcon 9 Block 5
Cape Canaveral
SLC-40
SpaceX
Sun
Coronagraph
Solar Terrestrial Probes program
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
NASA
Sun
solar sail
Solar Terrestrial Probes program
IMAP
principal investigator
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Alabama
Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe
Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere
coronagraph
Sun's magnetic field
coronal mass ejections
solar sail
solar radiation
Heliophysics Solar Terrestrial Probes program
Goddard Space Flight Center

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