University of Iowa space physicist Craig Kletzing’s life was cut short before he could complete his most ambitious NASA mission. The professor’s colleagues stepped in to bring TRACERS to the launch pad.

Ava Reed, a student in the College of Engineering, spent her summer designing and constructing the mini replica of the NASA funded satellite mission.

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.