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Millennium Space delivers two spacecraft for upcoming NASA mission
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
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.

Iowa students help develop NASA satellites
Sunday, October 13, 2024

NASA Funds Student-Led Rocket Mission
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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.

NASA touches down in Iowa to talk TRACERS
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
NASA delegates visited the University of Iowa on March 7-8 to learn about the largest externally funded research project in institutional history.

CLAS physics and astronomy faculty closer to launching instruments for TRACERS mission
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The team of University of Iowa researchers and graduate students has been working on TRACERS, which is funded by NASA, since 2019. The two satellites are anticipated to launch in April 2025.

UI professors build instruments for space mission set to launch with SpaceX in 2025
Thursday, October 19, 2023
David Miles, a University of Iowa associate professor of physics and astronomy, recently took over as the principal investigator on a satellite mission that will study the near-Earth orbit. Miles is leading the project after the death of UI professor Craig Kletzing in August.

NASA Announces Launch Services for Pair of Space Weather Satellites
Friday, September 29, 2023
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.

Miles Named PI of TRACERS Mission
Monday, September 25, 2023
Associate Professor David Miles has been named Principal Investigator of the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) Mission following the passing of Prof. Craig Kletzing in August.

Gazette: Esteemed Iowa, NASA physicist Craig Kletzing dies
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Longtime University of Iowa physics and astronomy professor Craig Kletzing made big news in 2019 when he won the single largest research grant in UI history.

Renowned Iowa physics professor, researcher Craig Kletzing dies
Friday, August 11, 2023
Craig Kletzing, the easygoing, humble University of Iowa professor who combined a zeal for teaching with a decorated research career in space plasma experimental physics, died on Thursday, Aug. 10. He was 65.
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