• Aug 6, 2009 - NuSTAR Confirmed for Launch in 2011
    NASA has approved and funded NuSTAR to begin building flight hardware
    PASADENA, Calif. — NuSTAR has successfully completed its Key Decision Point - C (KDP-C) review at NASA Headquarters and been approved for Phase C/D, the Mission Design and Development Phase.   ...More...
  • Feb 9, 2009 - OSC Pegasus Selected as NuSTAR Launch Vehicle
    Orbital Space Corp. selected to launch NuSTAR from Kwajalein Atoll
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has selected Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Va., to launch the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray telescope. The spacecraft will fly in 2011 aboard a Pegasus XL rocket from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site located at the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll.   ...More...
  • Nov 30, 2008 - NuSTAR PI Among America's Best Leaders
    F. Harrison selected by US News & World Report as one of America's Best Leaders
    "They were chosen because they are the best," says Alan Stern, a former NASA administrator who was on the selection committee that approved the missions proposed by the two women. "Space science is changing, and we now have a number of talented and experienced women scientists who are in a position to lead entire space missions."   ...More...
  • Apr 15, 2008 - Zhang's Glass Kitchen
    Goddard team to begin NuSTAR mirror production this Fall
    After 10 years of fine-tuning a technique to efficiently manufacture super-thin, curved mirrors needed to focus X-ray photons, Will Zhang and his team have won a position on the Caltech-led Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) to provide the telescope's more than 3,000 individual mirror segments.   ...More...
  • Jan 30, 2008 - NuSTAR Approved to Start Phase B
    NuSTAR approved and funded to begin the mission definition phase
    NuSTAR has successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B (KDP-B) review at NASA Headquarters and been approved for Phase B, the Mission Definition Phase.
  • Sep 21, 2007 - NuSTAR Given the Go-ahead to Restart
    Small Explorer mission to detect black holes scheduled for 2011 launch
    PASADENA, Calif. — NASA has given the go-ahead to restart an astrophysics mission that will provide a greater capability for using high-energy X-rays to detect black holes than any existing instrument has.   ...More...
  • Jan 26, 2005 - NuSTAR Selected for Extended Phase A
    NASA selects next Small Explorer missions
    NASA has decided to continue studying another proposed mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), the first telescope capable of detecting the black holes in the local Universe with 1 ,000 times more sensitivity than previous missions sensitive to energetic X-rays.   ...More...