Observing Cusp High-Altitude Reconnection and Electrodynamics: The TRACERS Student Rocket

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01192-4
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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8702-5806

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2025-07-07

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Powers, Brendan N., Connor A. Feltman, Allison N. Jaynes, Aidan T. Moore, Tamar Ervin, Kristie LLera, Olivia L. Jones, et al. “Observing Cusp High-Altitude Reconnection and Electrodynamics: The TRACERS Student Rocket.” Space Science Reviews 221, no. 5 (July 7, 2025): 65. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-025-01192-4.

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Education in Physics
TRACERS
Science Education
Space Exploration and Astronautics
Cusp
Space Studies
Sounding rocket
Student
Space Physics
Heliospheric Physics

Abstract

Observing Cusp High-altitude Reconnection and Electrodynamics (OCHRE) is a student/early career researcher (ECR) focused sounding rocket that will fly as a compliment to the TRACERS satellites. OCHRE will utilize the deep institutional knowledge of the TRACERS science team to educate and mentor a team of graduate students and ECRs to serve as instrument leads, project manager, and primary investigator. Aiming for a near conjunction with, and at an apogee above, TRACERS in the northern polar cusp, OCHRE will answer some remaining questions from the TRICE-II sounding rockets using TRACERS to contextualize observations in the larger-scale polar cusp dynamics.