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IXPE Mission

completedLaunch 2021-121
Launched 12/9/2021LEOService CXSat LEO D
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Payloads
Assets deployed on this mission, enriched from spacecraft records.
1 payload
IXPE
active
Science Exploration
LEO
Launch Details
Launch Date
12/9/2021
Launch ID
2021-121
Launch Profile
Sat LEO D
Service Type
CX
Customer Type
G
Orbit
LEO
Launch Stack
Operator
SpaceX
Launch Vehicle
Falcon 9 FT5
Launch Site
Launch Complex 39A, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida (NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida)US
Payload Summary
Payload Count
1
Payload Status
active 1
Payload Mission Types
Science Exploration 1
Track
Mentions
5
All verified mentions of this mission in source documents.

The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched on a previously flown booster weeks after DART in 2021.

PlanValue 2.5Apr 14, 2022NASA shifts Earth science mission to previously flown Falcon 9

NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launched at 1:00 a.m. EST on Thursday, 2021-12-09, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

PlanCapabilityValue 4.0Dec 8, 2021UPDATE: SpaceX Accomplishes The Launch Of NASA’s IXPE Mission

The IXPE mission planned a September 2021 launch on Falcon 9 as its updated target.

PlanValue 4.0Aug 6, 2020Pandemic delays launch of NASA astrophysics smallsat mission

NASA awarded a contract in July to SpaceX for a Falcon 9 launch of the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission despite IXPE being baselined to launch on the Pegasus XL.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.5Sep 10, 2019NASA reschedules long-delayed space science mission

NASA selected SpaceX to launch the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission on a Falcon 9 in April 2021 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A.

RelationshipsPlanValue 4.6Jul 8, 2019SpaceX wins contract to launch NASA small astrophysics mission