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IBEX reaches orbit, begins instrument commissioning

Submit on Friday, November 14th, 2008 05:58

NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft – the first mission designed to image the interaction at the edge of the solar system – has concluded its orbit-raising phase and is beginning instrument commissioning in preparation to start science observations.

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