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 NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer. or IBEX. spacecraft is the first to image and map the dynamic interactions 

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 taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space. 

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 The IBEX spacecraft launched from an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket on Oct. 19. 2008 

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 from the Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

New data from IBEX reveal that conditions at the edge of our solar 

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 system may be much more dynamic than previously thought. 

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 The spacecraft has produced a new set of "all-sky" maps of our solar system's interaction with the
galaxy. 

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 Future exploration missions will benefit in design and mission objectives from a better understanding of the 

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 changing conditions in this outer region of our solar system. 

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