NASA will maintain a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday, July 17, to share details about the company’s upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, mission, which is focused to launch no sooner than late July.
The TRACERS mission is a pair of dual satellites that may examine how Earth’s magnetic protect — the magnetosphere — protects our planet from the supersonic stream of fabric from the Solar known as photo voltaic wind. As they fly pole to pole in a Solar-synchronous orbit, the 2 TRACERS spacecraft will measure how magnetic explosions ship these photo voltaic wind particles zooming down into Earth’s ambiance — and the way these explosions form the house climate that impacts our satellites, expertise, and astronauts.
Additionally launching on this flight will probably be three extra NASA-funded payloads. The Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, led by NASA’s Langley Analysis Heart in Hampton, Virginia, is designed to exhibit an progressive, configurable technique to put remote-sensing devices into orbit sooner and extra affordably. The Polylingual Experimental Terminal expertise demonstration, managed by the company’s SCaN (House Communications and Navigation) program, will showcase new expertise that empowers missions to roam between communications networks in house, like cell telephones roam between suppliers on Earth. Lastly, the Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) CubeSat, led by Dartmouth Faculty in Hanover, New Hampshire, will use house as a laboratory to grasp how high-energy particles inside the bands of radiation that encompass Earth are naturally scattered into the ambiance, aiding the event of strategies for eradicating these damaging particles to higher shield satellites and the important floor programs they help.
Audio of the teleconference will stream reside on the company’s web site at:
Members embrace:
- Joe Westlake, division director, Heliophysics, NASA Headquarters
- Kory Priestley, principal investigator, Athena EPIC, NASA Langley
- Greg Heckler, deputy program supervisor for functionality improvement, SCaN, NASA Headquarters
- David Miles, principal investigator for TRACERS, College of Iowa
- Robyn Millan, REAL principal investigator, Dartmouth Faculty
To take part within the media teleconference, media should RSVP no later than 10 a.m. on July 17 to Sarah Frazier at: sarah.frazier@nasa.gov. NASA’s media accreditation policy is offered on-line.
The TRACERS mission will launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Advanced 4 East at Vandenberg House Drive Base in California.
This mission is led by David Miles on the College of Iowa with help from the Southwest Analysis Institute in San Antonio. NASA’s Heliophysics Explorers Program Workplace on the company’s Goddard House Flight Heart in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the mission for the company’s HeliophysicsDivision at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The College of Iowa, Southwest Analysis Institute, College of California, Los Angeles, and College of California, Berkeley, all lead devices on TRACERS that may examine adjustments within the Earth’s magnetic area and electrical area. NASA’s Launch Companies Program, primarily based on the company’s Kennedy House Heart in Florida, manages the Enterprise-class Acquisition of Devoted and Rideshare contract.
To be taught extra about TRACERS, please go to:
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Abbey Interrante / Karen Fox
Headquarters, Washington
301-201-0124 / 202-358-1600
abbey.a.interrante@nasa.gov / karen.c.fox@nasa.gov
Sarah Frazier
Goddard House Flight Heart, Greenbelt, Maryland
202-853-7191
sarah.frazier@nasa.gov