SpaceX is set to launch a triple ride-sharing mission for NOAA and NASA, kicking off a major upgrade to space weather forecasting and research into influences from the Sun .

A Falcon 9 rocket is poised for liftoff on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. ET from Florida launching NOAA’s Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellites and NASA’ s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) and the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory.

The NOAA satellite marks the first dedicated space weather forecasting spacecraft in its fleet.

NOAA IS ABOUT TO GET ITS FIRST DEDICATED SPACE WEATHER SATELLITE - JUST IN TIME

"You're trying to forecast something from 93 million miles away, how impactful that would be when you have just a couple of satellites in between that whole vacuum of space," NOAA Space

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