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- NASA’s New IXPE Mission Begins Science Operations Thu, 13 Jan 22, 5:00pmHaving spent just over a month in space, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is working and already zeroing in on some of the hottest, most energetic objects in the universe.
- NICER’s night moves trace the X-ray sky Sun, 2 Jun 19, 3:00pmNASA/Goddard Space Flight Center In this image, numerous sweeping arcs seem to congregate at various bright regions. You may wonder: What is being shown? Air traffic routes? Information moving around the global internet?...
- Another satellite re-entry and burnup expected, this one may have been brought down by hackers Mon, 17 Oct 11, 2:34amThis is interesting. The ROSAT X-ray observatory is expected to burn up in about a week and it has quite a checkered and colorful history. According to Wikipedia, ROSAT was originally planned to be launched on the Space shuttle...