The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Iowa is searching for multiple postdoctoral research scientists to join the team for the TRACERS Small Explorers mission launching in Q2 2025.

Interactions between Earth and the sun's magnetic fields cause "space weather" which can cause problems with our electrical infrastructure. The University of Iowa is leading the NASA mission studying this occurrence, TRACERS, and on this River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with the lead investigator on the project and astrophysicist David Miles.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - The University of Iowa is the lead institution on a NASA mission to study space weather and its impact on satellites and other technology we rely on.

The University of Iowa is the lead institution on a near-$166-million robotic space mission due for launch next year.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — In just over five months, the University of Iowa will be launching its TRACERS mission which currently stands as the largest grant ever awarded to the university.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov 12, 2024 – Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, completed two spacecraft for NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, mission, which will measure the connection between solar wind and the magnetic field surrounding Earth.

The TRACERS mission is a pair of satellites that will study how the solar wind, the continuous stream of ionized particles escaping the Sun and pouring out into space, interacts with Earth’s magnetosphere, the region around Earth dominated by our planet’s magnetic field. The mission will help answer key questions about how the Sun influences Earth, and ultimately drives space weather that impacts technology and communications.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Nov. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company, completed two spacecraft for NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS, mission, which will measure the connection between solar wind and the magnetic field surrounding Earth.

WASHINGTON — Millennium Space Systems completed the production of two spacecraft for a NASA science mission focused on unraveling the complexities of space weather events, the company announced Nov. 12.

The University of Iowa has received nearly $1.7 million from NASA to fund the OCHRE student-led sounding rocket mission that will study cusp dynamics in the Earth’s magnetosphere and help train the next generation of space physicists and instrumentalists.