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NASA's TRACERS to study 'magnetic explosions' triggered by space weather

NASA's Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission will study "magnetic ...
Sun Sentinel

NASA, NOAA space weather satellites to launch under cloud of Trump’s science hit list

Despite President Trump seeking to cut NASA’s science mission budget nearly in half, the agency is set to send up its latest hardware to study space weather. NASA and the National Oceanic and ...
BGR

NASA Launches New Mission With SpaceX To Map Space Weather

The NASA Space Weather Program studies how weather in space affects not only humans on Earth, but also how it could create challenges for astronauts and spacecraft on missions. Space weather is a term ...
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Space weather research mission launch delayed by NASA

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The next big mission to space is delayed but just by a few hours. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, NASA and ...
Ars Technica

SpaceX launches a pair of NASA satellites to probe the origins of space weather

Two NASA satellites rocketed into orbit from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday, commencing a $170 million mission to study a phenomenon of space physics that has eluded researchers ...
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NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to air travelers and validating global radiation maps used in flight ...
Orlando Sentinel

In battle against space weather, SpaceX launches 3 satellites headed 1 million miles away

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX launched three satellites early Wednesday on a million-mile trip to tackle the mysteries of space weather, including how to protect from the sun’s disruptive and ...