For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM CAPE CANAVERAL/KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s newest X-ray observatory – the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE – extended its origami like boom successfully Dec. 15 that had been folded up for launch inside the nose cone of the Falcon 9 carrier rocket and thereby enabling IXPE to soon carry out its unprecedented science mission
For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – NASA’s newest X-Ray astronomy mission, the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space telescope is set to launch overnight just past midnight Thursday, Dec. 9 on a used SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Space Coast And the weather outlook is quite excellent with relatively warm