NASA announced TRACERS, a pair of satellites to study Earth’s magnetosphere, slated to launch in late July 2025 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California, flying in tandem across the poles to observe magnetic reconnection, alongside three NASA tech demos including a “Polylingual” communications terminal and a smallsat radiation belt cleanup demonstrator. NASA announced SNIFS, the Solar Eruption Integral Field Spectrograph, to be carried by a sounding rocket from White Sands, New Mexico, with a July 18 launch window to study the Sun’s chromosphere and solar eruptions. NASA’s Crew-11 mission features four astronauts—Mike Fincke, Zena Cardman, Kimiya Yui, and Oleg