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IBEX Q & A
IBEX will explore the boundaries of our solar system. Learn more about the mission through questions and answers.
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About Our Solar System's Boundaries
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IBEX Update
NASA Explorer Realizes Possibility of Believing, Achieving
August 15, 2008
“Exploration is not an option we choose, but a desire written in the human heart.” President George Bush spoke those words during a speech before NASA senior leadership in 2004 to announce a new vision for space exploration. A leadership team responsible for leading this nation’s space explorations and embodying just such a desire to explore.
Willis Jenkins at his desk at NASA Headqurters in Washington, DC. Credit: NASA GSFC
> View high resolution photo One such explorer, Willis Jenkins, Jr., is the Program Executive for NASA’s Explorers Program, Science Mission Directorate/Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. He is also Program Executive for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission (IBEX), a mission to achieve the first global observations of the region beyond the termination shock at the very edge of our solar system.
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August 15, 2008
“Exploration is not an option we choose, but a desire written in the human heart.” President George Bush spoke those words during a speech before NASA senior leadership in 2004 to announce a new vision for space exploration. A leadership team responsible for leading this nation’s space explorations and embodying just such a desire to explore.
Willis Jenkins at his desk at NASA Headqurters in Washington, DC. Credit: NASA GSFC> View high resolution photo One such explorer, Willis Jenkins, Jr., is the Program Executive for NASA’s Explorers Program, Science Mission Directorate/Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. He is also Program Executive for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer Mission (IBEX), a mission to achieve the first global observations of the region beyond the termination shock at the very edge of our solar system.
> Read more
> Download IBEX Fact Sheet
> Watch video about IBEX
Mission News
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IBEX Spacecraft Heads West, Takes Major Step Toward Launch
NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, designed to image global interactions at the outer reaches of the solar system, today began its move to Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), California.
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IBEX Will View the Solar System's Invisible Frontier
IBEX will let us make the first global observations of the region beyond the termination shock at the very edges of our solar system.
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