NASA’s High-Energy Ion Telescope Ready for Installation on IMAP Spacecraft

NASA’s HIT instrument, integral to the IMAP mission, will monitor high-energy particles from the Sun, enhancing our understanding of space weather and its effects on Earth.

Scientists and engineers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are poised to deliver the High-energy Ion Telescope (HIT) instrument. HIT was shipped from Goddard to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland. A group of engineers at APL have now begun the process of installing HIT onto NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) spacecraft.