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TRACERS Mission
July 29 , 2025
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- NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
- TRACERS consists of twin spacecraft that will study magnetic reconnection.
- Magnetic reconnection is a key process where the solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetic field at the magnetopause boundary.
- The mission aims to understand how magnetic fields snap and reconnect, driving space weather effects that impact satellites, power grids, and GPS systems.
- TRACERS launches alongside other small satellites, including:
- Athena Economical Payload Integration Cost (EPIC) for studying Earth’s thermal emissions and climate.
- Polylingual Experimental Terminal (PexT) testing new space communication network switching.
- Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) analyses the harmful "killer electrons" around Earth.
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