SpaceX Launches NASA’s TRACERS Mission to Study the Origins of Space Weather Written 24 July 2025
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 launches @NASA’s TRACERS mission to orbit from California| Credit: SpaceX on X
Ars Technica reports, “Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers since the dawn of the Space Age. The twin spacecraft are part of the NASA-funded TRACERS mission, which will spend at least a year measuring plasma conditions in narrow regions of Earth’s magnetic field known as polar cusps.”
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