Channel: NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Category: Science & Technology
Tags: nasaimaging x-ray polarimetry explorerixpekennedy space centerlaunch services programlaunch complex 39aspacex falcon 9 rocket
Description: Live launch coverage for NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission begins at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. IXPE lifts off on Dec. 9, 2021, at 1:00 a.m. EST, from historic Launch Complex 39A on its two-year science mission to study some of the most mysterious and powerful objects in our universe.