One of these ride-along NASA efforts is the Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) SmallSat, which will ...

TRACERS are a combination of twin satellites that will observe how the trends in solar wind trigger magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetosphere, as reported by NASA. Such a reconnection leads ...

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

Athena EPIC is poised to serve as a pathfinder for space startup NovaWurks and its sensorcraft architecture, demonstrating a more innovative method for placing remote sensing instruments into orbit ...

The University of Iowa led NASA TRACERS mission launches today around 1 p.m. Here's how to tune in online or at a Iowa City ...

After eight years of preparation, a University of Iowa-led NASA mission is poised to launch Wednesday, July 23, from ...

NASA’s newest mission, TRACERS, soon will begin studying how Earth’s magnetic shield protects our planet from the effects of space weather.

July 22 (UPI) -- NASA's TRACERS mission is set to launch on Tuesday on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California. The ...

WVU researchers are leading the science operations center for the NASA TRACERS mission, which will examine ...

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led ...

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

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...