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Journey to the Heliosphere: An IMAP Celebration

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Join us to celebrate the start of the science phase of NASA’s IMAP — the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe mission, launched on September 24, 2025. Panelists from NASA and Princeton University offer a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a major space mission and how the Princeton community – from students to faculty and staff – helped make IMAP a success. IMAP has already benefitted from years of international, multi-institutional collaboration and science and engineering excellence led by Princeton’s David McComas, professor of astrophysical sciences and principal investigator of the mission.

The panel representing Princeton’s extraordinary team members that brought IMAP to life will share IMAP’s central role in advancing heliophysics and space weather prediction for the next era of space exploration while premiering excerpts from the new IMAP documentary, a production of Princeton University in association with NASA, Swift Creek Media, and Digital P Media.

Festivities include a Space Physics Expo of student projects at 4:30 PM and stargazing with Princeton astrophysicists following the panel, weather permitting.