{"id":132254,"date":"2021-12-11T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/watch-nasas-ixpe-observatory-launch-into-space-official-live-broadcast"},"modified":"2021-12-11T23:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T07:23:13","slug":"watch-nasas-ixpe-observatory-launch-into-space-official-live-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/watch-nasas-ixpe-observatory-launch-into-space-official-live-broadcast","title":{"rendered":"Watch NASA\u2019s IXPE Observatory Launch Into Space \u2014 Official Live Broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JGij0x0PA_Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re sending a new pair of X-ray eyes into the universe!<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is our first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays. Polarized light is made up of electric fields that vibrate in a single direction\u2014and IXPE\u2019s state-of-the-art X-ray vision will help scientists study the spin of black holes, the magnetic fields of pulsars, and other cosmic phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>IXPE is targeted to launch at 1:00 a.m. EST, Dec. 9 (06:00 UTC), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the mission at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ixpe\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/ixpe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re sending a new pair of X-ray eyes into the universe! NASA\u2019s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is our first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays. Polarized light is made up of electric fields that vibrate in a single direction\u2014and IXPE\u2019s state-of-the-art X-ray vision will help scientists study the spin of black holes, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132254","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}