Launched NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), a joint NASA/Italian Space Agency observatory studying polarized X-rays from black holes, neutron stars, pulsars and supernova remnants. The booster, B1061, was flying its fifth mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 330 kg
- Flight
- 74th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 2021, 06:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2021-121
- Launches in 2021
- 130th of 146
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