🚀 Next launch
| SpaceX 🇺🇸
Mission X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
Vehicle Falcon 9
Pad LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center 🇺🇸
📅 December 9th, 6:00 UTC+0
⏰ 1 hour, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
Mission information 🌍
Type Astrophysics
Orbit Low Earth orbit
Vehicle information 🚀
Core B1061.5 (fifth flight ♻️)
Landing JRTI (Atlantic Ocean)
ℹ️ Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a space observatory tasked with measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays. This data will help to learn more about objects that emit these X-rays, such as black holes and neutron stars.
| SpaceX 🇺🇸
Mission X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
Vehicle Falcon 9
Pad LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center 🇺🇸
📅 December 9th, 6:00 UTC+0
⏰ 1 hour, 21 minutes, 14 seconds
Mission information 🌍
Type Astrophysics
Orbit Low Earth orbit
Vehicle information 🚀
Core B1061.5 (fifth flight ♻️)
Landing JRTI (Atlantic Ocean)
ℹ️ Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a space observatory tasked with measuring the polarization of cosmic X-rays. This data will help to learn more about objects that emit these X-rays, such as black holes and neutron stars.