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Mission NASAICON is sheduled to be air-launched at 9:30pm ET on 9 Oct by PEGASUS XL rocket to study the region where our weather from below meets space weather above . The mission, delayed from 2017, aims to understand how solar wind and other space weather phenomena interact with the  ionosphere , a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere that begins 62 miles (100 kilometers) up. image source:NASA