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IXPE X-Ray Observatory Delivered to Kennedy Space Center for Launch

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Tom Patton
Nov 19, 2021
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NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), built by Ball Aerospace, has arrived at Cape Canaveral in FL. A collaboration between Ball, NASA, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), IXPE is an astrophysics observatory set to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December.

"[T]here is still a lot of work to be done upon its arrival at Kennedy, but …

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