AUSTIN (KXAN) — The next big mission to space is delayed but just by a few hours. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, NASA and SpaceX will now launch three satellites designed to study space weather on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. ET.

The satellites, NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On – Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1), are all designed to study various layers of space weather.

"We're really excited about that IMAP, the sort of main mission on that stack is going to be studying what is coming from the sun. So basically sitting and sensing everything that comes in the sun's atmosphere toward the Earth," said Dr. Nicola Fox, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

IMAP will study the solar win

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