NASA's IMAP Launch to Feature Instrument Designed and Built at UNH

When NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) spacecraft launches later this month (earliest launch date is Sept. 23) to explore the boundary of the magnetic bubble protecting our solar system, it will carry an instrument designed and built at UNH. The mission will help us as we plan to send missions to Mars and has implications for how life formed here on Earth. Nathan Schwadron, professor of physics and astronomy and principal investigator for the IMAP-Lo instrument, led a team of 50 UNH researchers, students and technicians, continuing UNH's six-decade legacy of space science excellence.