IXPE Payload Briefing

NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) Payload Briefing with representatives from NASA, the Italian Space Agency, Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, and Ball Aerospace. IXPE, the first mission of its kind, will measure polarized X-rays from objects, such as black holes and neutron stars. This mission is set to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Dec. 9, 2021, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch is managed by NASA’s Launch Services Program based at Kennedy Space Center. The participants include: Elisabetta Cavazzuti, ASI IXPE program manager, Italian Space Agency; Luca Baldini, Italian co-principal investigator, National Institute for Nuclear Physics; Brian Ramsey, deputy principal investigator, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center; MacKenzie Ferrie, IXPE program manager, Ball Aerospace