NASA selects SpaceX for rideshare launch of smallsat mission

NASA has chosen SpaceX to launch a pair of small satellites in 2025 as part of a rideshare mission dedicated to studying space weather.

On September 29, NASA revealed that it had awarded SpaceX a task order for launching the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS), two small satellites designed to investigate space weather and the Earth’s magnetosphere from low Earth orbit.

NASA originally selected TRACERS as a heliophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) mission in 2019, with a budget capped at $115 million, Space News reported.

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