CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, USA - 09 December 2021 - A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft o

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CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, USA - 09 December 2021 - 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 black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1:00 EST - Photo: Geopix/NASA/Joel Kowsky

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Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA
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