Mark Carreau
July 23, 2025

Tracer

Credit: NASA

NASA’s Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance (Tracer) twin-satellite mission launched successfully with a handful of other small spacecraft payloads on July 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Liftoff occurred as scheduled at 2:13 p…

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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