Falcon wyniósł satelitę na orbitę równikową 09.12. o 06:00 z KSC wystartowała RN Falcon-9R. Wyniosła ona na orbitę o parametrach: hp=540 km, ha=540 km, i=0,2° satelitę IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, SMEX-14). Pierwszy stopień RN (B1061.5) w T+8' 45" wylądował na barce ASDS JRTI na Atlantyku.
http://lk.astronautilus.pl/n211201.htm#09https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ixpe/images/imaging-x-ray-polarimetry-explorer-spacecraft.htmlIXPE launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing (mission control audio)Fairing has deployed
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1468823838364372996Deployment of IXPE confirmed
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1468831567275380737Here are some statistics on tonight's launch:131st launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010
139th launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006
5th launch of Falcon 9 booster B1061
116th SpaceX launch from Florida's Space Coast
134th launch overall from pad 39A
40th SpaceX launch overall from pad 39A
5th launch of a NASA science mission on a dedicated SpaceX rocket
76th flight of a reused Falcon 9 booster
28th Falcon 9 launch of 2021
28th launch by SpaceX in 2021
29th orbital launch based out of Cape Canaveral in 2021
Here's a timeline of the major events during the Falcon 9's climb to orbit, including the booster's maneuvers to return to Earth for landing on SpaceX's drone ship:T+01:12: Max-Q (moment of peak aerodynamic pressure)
T+02:32: First stage main engine cutoff (MECO)
T+02:36: Stage separation
T+02:44: Second stage engine ignition
T+03:37: Payload fairing jettison
T+06:19: First stage entry burn
T+08:04: Second stage engine cutoff (SECO-1)
T+08:10: First stage landing burn
T+08:35: First stage landing
T+28:51: Second stage engine ignition
T+29:51: Second stage engine cutoff (SECO-2)
T+33:22: IXPE separation
https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/08/falcon-9-ixpe-mission-status-center/https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/12/06/spacex-mates-nasa-astronomy-satellite-with-falcon-9-rocket-at-kennedy-space-center/NASA Launches New Mission to Explore Universe’s Most Dramatic ObjectsDec 9, 2021 RELEASE 21-168
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1 a.m. EST. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky(...) “IXPE represents another extraordinary first,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “Together with our partners in Italy and around the world, we’ve added a new space observatory to our fleet that will shape our understanding of the universe for years to come. Each NASA spacecraft is carefully chosen to target brand new observations enabling new science, and IXPE is going to show us the violent universe around us – such as exploding stars and the black holes at the center of galaxies – in ways we’ve never been able to see it.” (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-launches-new-mission-to-explore-universe-s-most-dramatic-objectsSpaceX Flies IXPE, Third Back-to-Back Night Launch from Space Coastby Ben Evans Nov 9 2021
(...) From its orbital perch at 370 miles (600 kilometers) above the Earth, this joint X-ray astrophysics mission features collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI), as well as partnerships with academia and industry in the United States, Canada and Italy. It seeks to investigate some of the most exotic and powerful objects in the known Universe. (...)
Video Credit: NASAVideo Credit: NASA(...) Original plans envisaged IXPE riding Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Pegasus-XL air-launched booster to orbit in 2020, but in July 2019 SpaceX received the $50.3 million contract to launch the spacecraft via its workhorse Falcon 9 booster from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. (...)
B1061 entered the SpaceX fleet to great fanfare in November 2020, when she lifted Dragon Resilience to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Crew-1 astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.
It was the first crew-carrying U.S. launch in the hours of darkness for more than a decade, since the twilight of the Space Shuttle Program. B1061 also lifted Crew-2 astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Aki Hoshide and Thomas Pesquet to the ISS aboard Dragon Endeavour last April. (...)
https://www.americaspace.com/2021/12/09/spacex-flies-ixpe-third-back-to-back-night-launch-from-space-coast/Landsat 9 declared operational, IXPE returns first science imageryFebruary 23, 2022 Stephen Clark
This image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A combines some of the first X-ray data collected by NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, shown in magenta, with high-energy X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, in blue. Credits: NASA/CXC/SAO/IXPE(...) NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE, mission has returned data from the first of at least several dozen celestial targets mapped out for two years of primary science observations. (...)
https://spaceflightnow.com/2022/02/23/landsat-9-declared-operational-ixpe-returns-first-science-imagery/50 Years of X-ray Vision: Scientist Leads NASA’s Next Step in X-ray AstronomyDec 3, 2021
Dr. Martin Weisskopf, principal investigator for the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer mission and chief scientist for X-ray astronomy at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Credits: NASA/Mick Speer
When NASA’s pioneering Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission launches Dec. 9, it will be another career landmark for principal investigator Martin Weisskopf.
More than three decades ago, Weisskopf led the development and launch of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as project scientist – a role he continues to fill today. IXPE soon will complement and build upon Chandra’s work, taking a bold and unique step forward by exploring the nature of stars, galaxies, and other celestial bodies in a new way. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ixpe/news/50-years-of-x-ray-vision-scientist-leads-nasa-s-next-step-in-x-ray-astronomy.htmlhttps://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/ixpehttps://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2021/12/ixpe-launch/https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20180006418/downloads/20180006418.pdfAA
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=4368.msg172423#msg172423https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/explorer_ixpe.htmEDIT 20.03.23
2023 mar 18 06:30 Kosmonauta.net
Rentgenowski teleskop NASA IXPE został umieszczony w przestrzeni kosmicznej w grudniu 2021 roku. (...)
https://ixpe.msfc.nasa.gov/
https://twitter.com/NASAUniverse/status/1572597949024067585