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NASA, NOAA Science News Conference on New Space Weather Missions
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Falcon 9 Block 5 | IMAP & others
NASA, NOAA Science News Conference on New Space Weather Missions, with the following participants:
- Joe Westlake, director, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
- David McComas, IMAP principal investigator, Princeton University
- Lara Waldrop, Carruthers Geocorona Observatory principal investigator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Jamie Favors, director, Space Weather Program, Heliophysics Division, NASA Headquarters
- Clinton Wallace, director, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
- James Spann, senior scientist, NOAA Office of Space Weather Observations
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