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Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites is a planned orbiter mission tasked to study the origins of the solar wind and how it affects Earth. The Principal Investigator is Craig Kletzing at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. Not including rideshare costs, TRACERS is funded US$115 million.The two microsatellites are to be flown as secondary satellites on a mission carrying the four Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere satellites.

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