10 December 2021
SpaceX launches NASA's IXPE mission
NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1 am EST (06:00 GMT) 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 ...
06 January 2017
NASA selects three new missions to study the early solar system and energetic X-rays from black holes
... Arizona State University in Tempe. Last but not least is the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission. Slated to launch in 2020 at a cost of $188 million, IXPE will look at the turbulent and extreme environments of phenomena such as stellar...
