IBEX to the far reachers of the solar system Options

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Today's newspaper had an article on IBEX spacecraft, which will study the far reaches of the solar system... from Earth orbit!

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a NASA satellite that will make the first map of the boundary between the Solar System and interstellar space.

Departure of the L-1011 carrier aircraft from Vandenberg, carrying the Pegasus XL rocket with IBEX, occured last week 10th October. After a stop in Hawaii, the flight will continue and arrive at the Reagan Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the South Pacific on Oct. 11 or 12.
Planned launchdate is Sunday 19th October 2008

http://www.ibex.swri.edu/timeline/index.shtml

http://www.ibex.swri.edu/

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[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

NASA's InterstellarBoundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft -- the first mission designed to imagethe interaction at the edge of the solar system -- concluded its orbit-raising phase and is beginning instrument commissioning inpreparation to start science observations.