NASA’s IXPE space observatory launches
Start: 09 Dec 2021 05:41 GMT
End: 09 Dec 2021 06:42 GMT
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES – A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a space observatory with three identical telescopes. The mission will study exotic astronomical objects and permit mapping the magnetic fields of black holes, neutron stars, pulsars, supernova remnants, magnetars, quasars, and active galactic nuclei.
It will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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0600GMT – 90-minute launch window opens
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