IXPE Teams Communicating with NASA Spacecraft

We have signal acquistion, meaning teams are now communicating with NASA's Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft, as it embarks on its two-year journey to study changes in the polarization of X-ray light through some of the universe's most extreme sources, including black holes, dead stars known as pulsars, and more.

"Everything has gone smoothly; we just crossed over Africa and acquired signal of the spacecraft," said NASA Senior Launch Director Omar Baez. "They'll start exposing the solar rays and doing their deployments, so you can't ask for any better than that."