https://spacewatch.global/tag/the-university-of-iowa/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:00:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/the-university-of-iowa/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2023/10/nasa-selects-spacex-for-tracers-mission/ Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:00:55 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=51455 NASA has selected SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket to provide the launch service for the agency’s TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) mission. The mission comprises a pair of small satellites that will study space weather and how the Sun’s energy affects Earth’s magnetic environment or magnetosphere.]]>