How Students Learn to Fly NASA’s IXPE Spacecraft

The large wall monitor displaying a countdown shows 17 seconds when Amelia Mia De Herrera-Schnering tells her teammates We have AOS, meaning acquisition of signal. Copy that, thank you, Alexander Pichler replies. The two are now in contact with NASAs IXPE Imaging X-Ray Polarimeter Explorer spacecraft, transmitting science data from IXPE to a ground station . https://science.nasa.gov/m...
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