Mark Carreau
July 17, 2025

Tracer

Credit: NASA

HOUSTON—NASA’s upcoming Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance (Tracer) mission is to provide fly-through data from interactions between the solar wind and Earth’s protective magnetic field that are intended to improve space weather forecasting. The study’s focus is on magnetic…

Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America’s space program through news reporting.

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