Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather.

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have three satellites set to lift off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:32 a.m. Tuesday.

The main payload is NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) with two rideshare satellites — NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite — all headed for a spot in space one million miles from Earth.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a 75% chance for good launch conditions, which improves to 90% if delayed to Wednesday’s launch opportunity at 7:30 a

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