{"id":132043,"date":"2021-12-09T05:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-space-telescope"},"modified":"2021-12-09T05:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:22:29","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-space-telescope","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA\u2019s new IXPE X-ray space telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-nasas-new-ixpe-x-ray-space-telescope3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IXPE will probe the physics behind some of the universe\u2019s most dynamic objects: black holes and neutron stars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX successfully launched its 28th rocket of the year early Thursday morning (Dec. 9), ferrying an X-ray observatory into space for NASA.<\/p>\n<p>A used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\">Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> blasted off at 1 a.m. (0600 GMT) from Pad 39A here at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carrying the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The mission marked the fifth flight for this particular booster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IXPE will probe the physics behind some of the universe\u2019s most dynamic objects: black holes and neutron stars. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX successfully launched its 28th rocket of the year early Thursday morning (Dec. 9), ferrying an X-ray observatory into space for NASA. A used Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 1 a.m. (0600 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}