NASA Plans Mission to Study Magnetic Fields

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has planned to launch a mission to study the Magnetic Reconnection Fields across the universe.

Magnetic reconnection is a physical process in highly conducting plasmas in which the magnetic topology is rearranged and magnetic energy is converted to kinetic energy, thermal energy, and particle acceleration.

Source NASA Plans new MMS Mission

This ambitious Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission is expected to take place in March next year. NASA plans to deploy four identical spacecraft from a single rocket which will study the magnetic reconnection in the universe. Such a mission will benefit by providing fresh insight and could aid in the creation of clean energy sources such as fusion nuclear reactors.

Source All Four Spacecraft Stacked on top of each other.

The spacecraft, which will break free from the stack once the rocket has reached the orbit, has 25 sensors and 11 instruments. When passing through the magnetic reconnection regions will be able to gather data at high speeds with the help of these.

Source A view of all four spacecraft.

NASA has released a demo video of the launch where a single rocket will carry all four MMS spacecraft, stacked on top of each other, to their destination from Cape Canaveral, Florida.