The integrated NuSTAR observatory, including the instrument and spacecraft, at Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) in Dulles, Virginia on June 29, 2011. The observatory is being prepared for environmental testing, including testing in a thermal vacuum chamber and vibration testing.
The upside-down pyramid on the top is the star-tracker camera head and to the left of it the two optic modules can be seen.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array science operations center is located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology
