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  • Key Milestones for Upcoming NASA’s TRACERS Mission

    Image shows a SpaceX rocket at the launch pad

    NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission is targeting 2:13 p.m. EDT (11:13 a.m. PDT) today for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. There is a 57-minute launch window for this mission.  The TRACERS mission is a pair of […]

  • NASA Mission Ready to Study Space Weather Impacts on Earth 

    NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission is is targeting to lift off today at 2:13 p.m. EDT (11:13 a.m. PDT) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. There is a 57-minute launch window for this mission.  The TRACERS mission will study […]

  • NASA Mission Ready to Study Space Weather Impacts on Earth 

    In this artist's concept, the two TRACERS spacecraft are orbiting above Earth. Earth fills most of the image, with speckles of a starry sky visible above the planet. The spacecraft are octagonal with long antennae sticking out on four sides, and shorter antennae sticking out on two sides.

    NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission is targeting to lift off today at 2:13 p.m. EDT (11:13 a.m. PDT) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. There is a 57-minute launch window for this mission.  The TRACERS mission will study magnetic […]

  • NASA Satellites Encapsulated for TRACERS Launch 

    Image shows a group of people in white bunny suits posing in front of a spacecraft fairing with two black satellites on top a shiny metallic box

    Final prelaunch operations are underway for NASA’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission. Technicians encapsulated the twin satellites within a payload fairing on Friday, July 18, inside the Astrotech Space Operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.  The fairing will protect the mission during launch through the atmosphere and before […]

  • Space Weather Satellite Makes Final Stop in Florida

    Image shows a semi-trailer carrying a satellite covered in a silver protective cover at Astrotech Space Operations near NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Observatory, set to provide quicker and more accurate space weather forecasts, arrived on July 20 at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Technicians will process the spacecraft and ready it for launch alongside two NASA observatories, […]

  • NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Space Observatory Arrives in Florida

    Image shows a semi-truck trailer carrying a satellite for NASA.

    Technicians offloaded NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory following arrival on July 20 at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Workers drove the spacecraft from a BAE Systems facility in Colorado, where teams built the spacecraft bus and integrated instruments at the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkely in California.   […]

  • Bone and Robotics Research Informing Future Missions as Crew Nears Departure

    The Expedition 73 crew kicked off the week studying how to live and work in space during long-term missions including staying healthy in weightlessness and operating planetary robots from a spacecraft. The seven International Space Station (ISS) residents also replaced flight hardware and continued preparing for a crew swap beginning at the end of the month.