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Requested move 15 November 2019[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:23, 23 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer → IXPE – Simply no need for disambiguation to the spacecraft's full name, as there is no other articles, subjects, or topics with the "IXPE" name. – PhilipTerryGraham (talk · articles · reviews) 10:19, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support - The lack of other articles called "IXPE" is not decisive of what this article should be called. The real question is whether IXPE is the common name for this subject. A review of e.g., GNews hits shows it to be more prevalent (57 results for "Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer", 243 results for "IXPE" - the majority of which - but not all - are related to the NASA mission). IXPE is also obviously more concise than the full name. In terms of WP:CRITERIA I suppose it might be argued that it is clearer, but the current title is hardly clear to the average reader who does not understand what "Imaging X-ray Polarimetry" actually is. FOARP (talk) 11:20, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support -Rowan Forest (talk) 15:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Incoherent sentence - fixed[edit]

the first sentence doesn't make much sense. i'm quite certain the "explorer program" does not emit x-rays. i would rephrase, if knew what it supposed to mean. "is a space observatory with three identical telescopes designed to measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays of Explorer program.[6] " Krisztián Pintér (talk) 12:27, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I fixed it. I'm going to do a few other changes to this page. Nrl103 (talk) 02:24, 20 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Designed for Delta II ?[edit]

Its structure (solar panels & extending telescope) were designed to fit in smaller Delta II payload fairing. Apparently due to space in Falcon fairing IXPE was launched with solar panel partly deployed. We could use or link to an image showing IXPE inside one half of the payload fairing (rather than the image of the outside of the fairing) - (looking for refs) - Rod57 (talk) 11:53, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]