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IBEX is one of many missions that supports NASA's research into the science of Heliophysics.
Spacecraft: Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX)
Launch Vehicle: Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL Rocket
Launch Location: Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll
Launch Date: Oct. 19, 2008
Launch Time: 1:48 p.m. EDT
IBEX: Mapping the Boundaries of Our Solar System
Image above: An early morning view of the Pegasus XL rocket suspended underneath Orbital Sciences' L-1011 aircraft prior to drop. Photo credit: NASA
NASA's IBEX spacecraft launched from an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket at 1:48 p.m. EDT on Oct. 19, 2008 from the Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
IBEX is the first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space.
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