KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX is set to launch early Wednesday to send up three satellites on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and dangerous solar flares.

A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:30 a.m. carrying NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) with two rideshare satellites — NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the NOAA’s Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) satellite.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a 90% chance for good launch conditions.

The first-stage booster is making its second flight to space with a planned recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic.

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