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NASA Announces Launch Services for Pair of Space Weather Satellites

TRACERS Satellites will Ride to Orbit on a Falcon 9 Rocket

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Tom Patton
Oct 03, 2023
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NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for the agency's TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission, a pair of small satellites that will study space weather and how the Sun's energy affects Earth's magnetic environment, or magnetosp…

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