NASA's Solar Wind Monitoring Twin Satellite Has Been Completed

Illustration of NASA satellites in orbit (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA The Millennium Space Systems has completed producing two satellites belonging to NASA. This aircraft is the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electronics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS).

The company did not explain when the satellite production process was completed, but this news was only announced on Tuesday, November 12. Millennium Space revealed that they are ready to proceed to the next development stage.

Richard Prasad as Manager of the TRACERS Program at the Millennium Space Systems said that the next stage is the installation of instruments. Technicians will integrate tools that can study magnetic and electric field changes, plasma particles, and waves.

After integrating the instruments, the Millennium Space Systems will conduct environmental tests. If all these stages are completed, TRACERS will be sent to the launch pad located at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

These twin satellites will be flown next year using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. To date, both the Millennium Space Systems and NASA have not disclosed the launch window set for the spacecraft.

TRACERS is a satellite developed to orbit the Sinkron Solar Orbit (SSO). NASA, and Millennium Space, which received contracts in 2019, deliberately created twin satellite models so that the two rides could transmit data to each other.

These two satellites will study and understand how the process of meeting the solar wind with the Earth's magnetosphere. Usually, these two interactions can cause aurora phenomena to cause damage to satellites and power grids.

By making solar wind monitoring tools or charged particles emitted by the Sun, scientists can be helped in making predictions of events or weather conditions in outer space. This tool can also determine how big the impact of the solar wind is.