Three satellites are set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, according to a National Aeronautics and Space Administration press release. The mission is to study space weather and its effects on Earth. "It is extremely urgent for us to actually understand what our sun is doing for us," NASA's head of science, Nicky Fox, told ABC News. She explained in this mission that NASA will focus primarily on astronaut safety, while NOAA handles space weather predictions for civilian use in the United States. "It's very important for us to understand what's coming from the sun and how it's impacting our planet," Fox said. "It affects things like precision agriculture, precision drilling, mining, GPS signals, spacecraft in orbit, and our astrona

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