A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched three missions to the L1 Lagrange point, nearly a million miles from Earth. NASA's IMAP mission will map the heliosphere's boundary, while the Carruthers observatory will study Earth's geocorona. NOAA's SWFO-L1 will provide real-time solar wind observations for early warnings of geomagnetic storms impacting infrastructure. The combined $1.6 billion mission, launched from Kennedy Space Center, represents significant cost savings by using a single rocket.

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