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hi i'm nasa kennedy's basically odin and

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this is kennedy countdown

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nasa's imaging x-ray polarimetry

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explorer or xp arrived last month in

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florida workers completed pre-launch

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testing and then integrated the

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spacecraft with the spacex falcon 9

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rocket

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xp is the agency's first mission

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dedicated to measuring x-ray

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polarization which will allow

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astronomers to discover hidden details

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of some of the densest and most extreme

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cosmic sources including neutron stars

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black holes and supernova remnants

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liftoff is scheduled for december 9th

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from kennedy space center's launch

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complex 39a

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nasa's laser communications relay

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demonstration or lcrd moved another step

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closer to launch when a team of

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engineers attached the payload fairing

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containing its host satellite to a

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united launch alliance atlas 5 rocket

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the lcrd payload hosted on the

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department of defense space test program

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3 mission will demonstrate optical

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technology that could provide data rates

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up to 100 times better than commonly

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used radio frequency communications

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in the future laser technology may

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greatly increase bandwidth for

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communicating in space while reducing

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size weight and power requirements for

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both government and commercial uses