A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 23 carrying NASA’s TRACERS mission and several other smallsats. Credit: SpaceX LAS VEGAS — A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched ...

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic reconnection and its effects in Earth's atmosphere," according to the Goddard Space ...

NASA's TRACERS mission blasted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday (July 23), after a 24-hour delay caused by airspace concerns. TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp ...

On July 23, 2025, a NASA-funded mission led by the University of Iowa saw the successful launch of its twin satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base space launch complex 4E, atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

With Earth as the background, one of the NASA TRACERS satellites separates from the Falcon 9 rocket after launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: SpaceX photo After a one-day delay, a Falcon ...

A SpaceX rocket launched two satellites with Texas ties on their one-year journey to study space weather. The Falcon 9 ferrying NASA’s Tracers mission to orbit lifted off earlier this week from ...

NASA’s Tracers (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission deploys into orbit after launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Space Launch Complex 4 East at ...

The University of Iowa's TRACERS mission successfully launched, studying the interaction between Earth's magnetic field and solar wind. The twin satellites will observe magnetic reconnection, which ...

SpaceX launched twin satellites for NASA Wednesday that will study how the electrically-charged solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field, creating constantly changing and occasionally ...

NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance (Tracer) twin-satellite mission launched successfully with a handful of other small spacecraft payloads on July 23 aboard a SpaceX ...

This week’s launches predominantly featured SpaceX’s Falcon 9, beginning with a Starlink mission from Vandenberg, followed by the O3b mPOWER satellites for SES from Florida, and concluding with NASA’s ...

In late July, two groundbreaking satellites will launch into space to study the effects of solar wind on Earth’s magnetosphere. The mission, called Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics ...