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NASA probes will study potentially dangerous "space weather"

Along with launching two NASA probes, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried five other satellites into orbit with goals ranging ...
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Power Outage Causes Last-Minute Scrub of NASA’s TRACERS Mission

NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission, a critical scientific ...

NASA seeks moon and Mars communications, navigation proposals

Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to ...

NASA to launch 2 new satellites that will help forecast solar storms

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical ...
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2 new NASA satellites will track space weather to help keep us safe from solar storms

A new mission set to blast off for low-Earth orbit will study magnetic storms around the Earth and learn more about how they ...
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SpaceX Launch Could Cause Southern Californians to Hear a Sonic Boom on Wednesday

Three Southern California counties may hear one or two sonic booms after the prospective launch of a SpaceX NASA TRACERS ...
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TRACERS dual-satellite mission prepares to explore magnetic reconnection at Earth's cusp

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission, a collaborative effort led ...
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NASA mission awarded largest grant in UI history to launch Tuesday

Six years after the University of Iowa landed $115 million from NASA to research how solar wind interacts with the Earth's ...