2023-10-02 19:26:02
The NASA selected the company SpaceX de Hawthorne, CaliforniaUSA, and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service of the future TRACERS mission (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) which will have as its main objective study how the Sun’s energy affects Earth and space weather.
As explained by the aforementioned North American space agency, through its official website, los TRACERS are a pair of small satellites what they will fly repeatedly one behind the other and through the north pole cuspfor study where and how often reconnection occurs at the outer edges of Earth’s magnetic field.
“TRACERS will be an important addition to the NASA heliphysics fleet and aims answer long-standing questions critical to understanding the Sun-Earth system”, pointed out the specialists.
“Los rotating satellites will study how the solar wind, the continuous stream of ionized particles that escape from the Sun and pour into spaceinteracts with the region around the Earth dominated by the magnetic field of our planet. This interaction, or magnetic reconnection, is a intense energy transfer “which can occur when two magnetic fields meet, which could potentially affect operations with the crew and sensitive satellites,” they added from NASA.
The TRACERS mission is led by Craig Kletzingfrom the University of Iowa, is managed by the Southwest Research Institute en San AntonioTexas, while the NASA Heliophysics Explorers Program Office in it Goddard Space Flight Center NASA in Greenbelt, Maryland, is responsible for Supervise the mission of the project for the Heliophysics Division that NASA has at its headquarters in Washington, USA.
Finally, NASA announced that, if everything goes as planned, the date of launch of this pair of weather satellites into space will take place July 27, 2024.
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