Imperial to build instrument for new NASA mission to study the solar wind | Imperial News
INTERSTELLAR INSTRUMENT - A new mission, called the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), will carry a magnetometer built by Imperial physicists.
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INTERSTELLAR INSTRUMENT - A new mission, called the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), will carry a magnetometer built by Imperial physicists.
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 neces...