NASA to Brief Media on New Mission to Study Earth’s Magnetic Shield

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 17, to share information on the next tandem recognition satellites and the agency’s cuspid, or tracers, the mission, which should be launched at the beginning of the end of July.

The mission of the tracers is a pair of twin satellites which will study how the magnetic shield of the earth – the magnetosphere – protects our planet from the supersonic flow of sun material called solar wind. As they fly the post to the post in a synchronic orbit of the sun, the spaceship of the two tracers will measure how magnetic explosions send these solar wind particles zooming into the atmosphere of the earth – and how these explosions shape spatial time which has an impact on our satellites, our technologies and our astronauts.

The launch on this flight will also be three useful expenses funded by NASA. The Athena Epic (Cost of integration of the economic payload) Smallsat, led by the Langley Research Center of NASA in Hampton, in Virginia, is designed to demonstrate an innovative and configurable means of putting orbit in orbit and more affordable. The demonstration of technology of experimental Polylingues terminals, managed by the agency’s SCAN (Space Communications and Navigation) program, will present new technologies that will allow missions to move between space communication networks, such as mobile phones roam suppliers on Earth. Finally, the relativistic electronic atmospheric loss (real), directed by Dartmouth College of Hanover, New Hampshire, will use space as a laboratory to understand how high energy particles in the radiation bands surrounding the earth are naturally dispersed in the atmosphere, contributing to the development of methods to remove these damaged particles to better protect the satellites and critical systems.

The audio of the teleconference will broadcast live on the agency’s website:

nasa.gov/live

Participants include:

• Joe Westlake, Director of Division, Heliophysics, Headquarters of NASA
• Kory Priestley, principal researcher, Athena Epic, Nasa Langley
• Greg Heckler, Deputy Program Director for Capacity Development, Scan, NASA seat
• David Miles, principal researcher of tracers, Iowa University
• Robyn Millan, a real principal investigator, Dartmouth College

To participate in the media teleconference, the media must RSVP no later than 10 a.m. on July 17 in Sarah Frazier in: sarah.frazier@nasa.gov. NASA media accreditation policy is available online.

The mission of the tracers will be launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East in Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

This mission is led by David Miles at the Iowa University with the support of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Office of the NASA Heliophysical Heliophysical Explorers at Goddard Space Flight Center of the Agency in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the mission of the agency Heliophysicsdivision at the NASA headquarters in Washington. The Iowa University, the Southwest Research Institute, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California in Berkeley, all of the main instruments on the tracers that will study changes in the magnetic field and the electric field of the earth. The NASA launching services program, based in the agency Kennedy Space Center in Florida, manages the acquisition of the venture capital class of a dedicated and carpooling contract.

To find out more about the tracers, please visit:

Nasa.gov/tracers

-END-

Abbey Interrerant / Karen Fox
Headquarters, Washington
301-201-0124 / 202-358-1600
abbey.a.interrantor@nasa.gov / karen.c.fox@nasa.gov

Sarah Frazier
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
202-853-7191
sarah.frazier@nasa.gov