The weather outlook for NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) launch from Kennedy Space Center remains outstanding. Weather officials with Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s 45th Weather Squadron predict a greater than 90% chance of favorable conditions for liftoff of NASA’s first dedicated mission to measuring X-ray polarization.
Propellant load is underway, which eliminates IXPE’s 90-minute launch window.
“We have committed to this and we are committed to a T-zero at 1 a.m.,” said Mic Woltman of NASA Communications.