NASA launches new mission to explore universe's most dramatic objects

NASA launches new mission to explore universe's most dramatic objects

Space Daily

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Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 10, 2021

NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 a.m. EST Thursday on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, the IXPE observatory is NASA's first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from the most extreme and mysterious objects in the universe - supernova remnants, superm

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