(FOX 5/KUSI) -- NASA and SpaceX will launch three satellites this week as part of new space weather missions with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The satellites, which are all meant to study space weather, were originally scheduled to launch on Tuesday, Sept. 23, but NASA has delayed the mission to 7:30 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Sept. 24 instead.

The three satellites -- NASA's IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and NOAA's Space Weather Follow On - Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) -- will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Dr. James Spann Jr., the senior scientist for space weather at NOAA, joined FOX 5/KUSI's morning newscast to discuss the "cosmic carpooling."

He said the NOAA s

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