NASA to launch satellites to track solar storms

NASA is preparing to launch three satellites this week on a mission to track solar storms that can disrupt life on Earth.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - NASA is set to launch three satellites Wednesday aimed at tracking solar storms and improving forecasts of space weather that can affect life on Earth.

What we know:

NASA is upgrading its satellites around the sun with its latest space weather tracking mission. It’s three satellites strapped into one Falcon 9 – all with different missions but mostly focusing on the sun.

Liftoff is scheduled for Wednesday morning at 7:30 a.m. from KSC Launch Complex 39-A on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, or IMAP, will cre

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