Polarization

By Sarah Martin, 20 February, 2023
By Jasmine Hicks   
Dec 9, 2021, 1:13pm EST

On Thursday morning, NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) successfully launched into space on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The two-year mission, a joint effort with the Italian Space Agency, is NASA’s first mission dedicated to studying and measuring X-ray polarization.