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English: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as blackholes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

Español: Falcon 9 despega durante la misión IXPE.

Date

9 December 2021, 01:58:54

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NASA/Joel Kowsky

Joel Kowsky
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Image title	A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as blackholes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 a.m. EST. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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File:IXPE Launch (NHQ202112090001).jpg

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Falcon 9 Block 5

Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

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9 December 2021

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0.002 second

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8

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