Sept. 23 (UPI) -- NASA officials are prepared to launch a mission that is designed to protect the Earth's technologies against the potentially damaging effects of solar storms. A National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Follow On Lagrange spacecraft also will launch into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket. Solar storms and other space weather can knock out satellites and affect power grids and other systems on Earth, Wallace added. The IMAP probe has 10 scientific instruments that will enable it to map the sun's heliosphere and study space weather, according to Spaceflight Now. A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket will send the IMAP probe into space, along with two other spacecraft.