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Ball Aerospace Completes Integration of NASA s IXPE Observatory, Begins Testing IXPE will measure the polarization of cosmic x-rays to study exotic objects in the universe News provided by Share this article Share this article BROOMFIELD, Colo., Jan. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Ball Aerospace recently completed the spacecraft and payload assembly integration of NASA s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory at its Boulder, Colo. facility. Ball will now begin environmental testing of the integrated observatory, which includes all instruments and the spacecraft bus. Ball Aerospace completed integration of NASA s IXPE observatory, which now moves into testing. Scheduled to launch later this year, once on orbit, IXPE will measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays to improve our understanding of the fundamental physics of extreme and exotic objects in the universe, such as black holes.

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