Daily Archives: October 19, 2008

IBEX is now in orbit.

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Invader Xan

So it turns out, 1:48 EDT is 18:48 over here. Meh. Time zones… But what the hell. IBEX successfully launched, and it’ll hopefully give us a few interesting insights on the outer limits of the Solar system fairly soon!

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IBEX Launch Day!

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Invader Xan

I just realised — IBEX launches today! At about 7:48pm BST (1:48pm EDT). And it has a launch blog which is live 2 hours beforehand. And I have mead. Mead is good. Though it means I probably won’t be sat … Continue reading →