The University of Iowa's NASA mission, TRACERS, successfully launched into orbit, marking a significant milestone in space ...

San Antonio-based Southwest Research Institute is managing the $115 million mission examining the effects of solar winds.

TRACERS are a combination of twin satellites that will observe how the trends in solar wind trigger magnetic reconnection in ...

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million ...

The next satellites SpaceX helps to deliver to orbit from Vandenberg won't be its own, but rather two of NASA's on a scientific mission.

NASA TRACERS mission is set to study how Earth's magnetic field protects us from solar storms and space weather. The mission features two satellites flying in tandem, designed to measure magnetic ...

NASA is set to explore how solar activity affects the magnetic field of Earth in its groundbreaking mission Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites .The mission ...

Three more rocket launches could be commencing in the week ahead from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California.

The mission is known as TRACERS, a lengthy acronym that stands for Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites. The satellites will fly at a trajectory known as low ...

Editor's Note:An unexpected aircraft in the airspace has delayed the launch of the TRACERS mission to Wednesday, July 23. The launch window is scheduled for 1:13 p.m. to 2:11 p.m. central time.

NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the TRACERS mission from California later this month to study Earth’s magnetosphere. The mission will involve a Falcon 9 rocket carrying two satellites into ...

TRACERS will provide important context for data from the SwRI-led Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, launched in 2015. MMS characterized magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetosphere ...