Launch Date: December 9
Launch Window: 1am EST (10pm PST on the 8th, 06:00 UTC) (90 minute window)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS (JRTI)
Booster: B1062-4
Fairings: New
Mass: 340 kg
Orbit: LEO - Geocentric
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. IXPE exploits the polarization state of light from astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in objects such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.
SpaceX's first launch to an equatorial orbit.
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Launch Window: 1am EST (10pm PST on the 8th, 06:00 UTC) (90 minute window)
Launch site: LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Core Booster Recovery: ASDS (JRTI)
Booster: B1062-4
Fairings: New
Mass: 340 kg
Orbit: LEO - Geocentric
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer. IXPE exploits the polarization state of light from astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in objects such as neutron stars and pulsar wind nebulae, as well as stellar and supermassive black holes.
SpaceX's first launch to an equatorial orbit.
IXPE (SMEX 14, Explorer 97)
IXPE (Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer) is a X-ray observatory led by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, measuring the l...
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