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Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-08-2021 04:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft will measure polarized X-rays from exotic cosmic objects, such as black holes and neutron stars, to better understand these types of phenomena and their extreme environments.
This astrophysics mission will allow astronomers to discover, for the first time, the hidden details of some of the most exotic astronomical objects in our universe. IXPE is NASA's first mission dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources.

A limited edition embroidered IXPE patch is available from the employee exchange store at NASA's Johnson Space Center:

Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-08-2021 04:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
SpaceX, which is launching the IXPE spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, has designed its own patch:

Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-09-2021 08:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A look at the embroidered SpaceX patch (via Twitter):

And the U.S. Space Force Space Launch Delta 45 (SLD45) 1st Range Operations Squadron (1ROPS) PVC patch (via eBay):

Liembo
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posted 12-22-2021 07:30 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Liembo   Click Here to Email Liembo     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The "Limited Edition" patch above from JSC is an A-B emblem patch, SKU 432915, 07/21 40.

Kevin T. Randall
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posted 01-08-2022 10:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kevin T. Randall   Click Here to Email Kevin T. Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This "Limited Edition" Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite patch has just been released by AB Emblem and is now currently available to buy from their website. This patch has the details as above in Liem's post.
  • 432915 A-B Emblem Made In China 07/21 40
There may well be a later second production run as the first one in July was a minimum limited edition run?

This IXPE patch is not on their "Home/Feachured Emblems" page, but on their collections "NASA Patches" page 2.

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