{"id":62081,"date":"2019-07-10T21:15:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ball-aerospace-completes-critical-design-review-for-nasa-mission\/"},"modified":"2019-07-10T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:15:12","slug":"ball-aerospace-completes-critical-design-review-for-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ball-aerospace-completes-critical-design-review-for-nasa-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Aerospace Completes Critical Design Review for NASA Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The mission critical design review (M-CDR) of <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory was recently completed at <strong>Ball Aerospace<\/strong>\u2018s&nbsp;Boulder, Colorado, facility. The IXPE mission is led by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center, with support from Ball Aerospace, the <strong>Italian Space Agency<\/strong> (ASI), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at&nbsp;<strong>University of Colorado Boulder<\/strong>,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and other partners.<\/p>\n<p>IXPE is a Small Explorer, or SMEX mission, which is part of NASA\u2019s Astrophysics Explorer Program. Martin C. Weisskopf, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, is the principal investigator for the mission. Once launched in 2021, IXPE will measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays to improve our understanding of the fundamental physics of extreme and exotic objects in the universe, such as black holes.&nbsp;Ball Aerospace is responsible for providing the IXPE spacecraft, mechanical and structural elements of the payload, observatory assembly, and integration and test for IXPE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIXPE is an excellent example of an integrated team comprising government, industry and academia focused on a common purpose to deliver exciting and important science \u2013 the kind of work Ball loves to do,\u201d said Dr.&nbsp;Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace. \u201cWith M-CDR now complete we focus on hardware production, which includes the Ball Configurable Platform, or BCP, small satellite.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission critical design review (M-CDR) of NASA\u2018s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space-based astrophysics observatory was recently completed at Ball Aerospace\u2018s&nbsp;Boulder, Colorado, facility. The IXPE mission is led by NASA\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center, with support from Ball Aerospace, the Italian Space Agency (ASI), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at&nbsp;University of Colorado Boulder,&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}