After eight years of hard work, a NASA mission with technology developed by the University of Iowa is scheduled to launch into space today. The Corridor Business Journal reports that the TRACERS mission will launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
What is the TRACERS mission?
The CBJ reports that TRACERS stands for the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites mission. Yeah, that’s a mouthful! The project will study the interactions between the magnetic fields of the sun and Earth, with the goal of learning answers to questions about space weather. The two satellites will blast into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, according to the CBJ…