David Miles

“That’s the primary driver for beautiful things… like the Northern Lights, but it also drives some of these negative things that we want to understand and mitigate, like unplanned electrical currents in our electrical grids that can potentially cause accelerated aging in electrical pipelines, disruption of GPS, things like that,”

David Miles · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

David Miles discussed the positive and negative effects of magnetic reconnection.

“That gives us two, closely spaced measurements to allow us to pick apart is something accelerating or slowing down? Is something moving around or is something turning on and off?”

David Miles · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

David Miles explained the advantages of using two satellites flying closely together.

“Each spacecraft is going to get a measurement of basically the local state of the plasma, like the electric field, the magnetic field and the local ions and electrons that compose the plasma.”

David Miles · said date not stated · reported 2025-07-22

David Miles detailed the plasma measurements each TRACERS spacecraft will collect.