NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes program (STP) is a series of missions focused on studying the Sun-Earth system.
[3] Hinode, an ongoing collaboration with JAXA, is a mission to explore the magnetic fields of the Sun.
[4] It was launched on the final flight of the M-V-7 rocket from Uchinoura Space Center, Japan on September 22, 2006.
IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) is a heliosphere observation mission.
Planned for launch in 2025, it will sample, analyze, and map particles streaming to Earth from the edges of interstellar space.