NASA MEDIA TELECON ON MISSION TO STUDY EARTH’S MAGNETIC SHIELD, July 17, 2025, virtual, 11:00 am ET

NASA will hold a media telecon on July 17, 2025 at 11:00 am ET to discuss an upcoming mission to study Earth’s magnetic shield — Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites, or TRACERS.

TRACERS will launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in late July along with three other NASA funded payloads that are described in NASA’s press release: Athena EPIC (Economical Payload Integration Cost) smallsat, Polylingual Experimental Terminal technology demonstration, and Relativistic Electron Atmospheric Loss (REAL) cubesat.

Audio of the teleconference will stream live on the agency’s website at: nasa.gov/live

Participants are:

• Joe Westlake, division director, Heliophysics, NASA Headquarters
• Kory Priestley, principal investigator, Athena EPIC, NASA Langley
• Greg Heckler, deputy program manager for capability development, SCaN, NASA Headquarters
• David Miles, principal investigator for TRACERS, University of Iowa
• Robyn Millan, REAL principal investigator, Dartmouth College