SpaceX will launch NASA's ambitious IMAP mission and two other space weather probes early Tuesday morning (Sept. 23), and you can watch the action live.

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday at 7:32 a.m. EDT (1132 GMT), carrying IMAP and two rideshare spacecraft deep into the final frontier.

You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Coverage will begin at 6:40 a.m. EDT (1040 GMT).

The primary payload is IMAP, whose name is short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe."

IMAP "will study how the sun's energy and particles interact with the heliosphere — an enormous protective bubble of space around our solar system — to enhance our understanding of space weather, cosmi

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