Photograph • June 13, 2013
To celebrate the one year anniversary of the successful launch of NuSTAR into orbit, scientists, friends and their families of the mission gathered at the California Institute of Technology for a birthday party.
On June 13, 2013 scientists and friends of NuSTAR celebrated the first anniversary of the successful launch and deployment of the instrument.
Photograph • June 28, 2012
This poster commemorates that event and was signed by the NuSTAR scientists working at University of California, Berkeley.
Photograph • June 13, 2012
All eyes are fixed in anticipation on the monitor showing the NuSTARs launch rocket under the belly of the L-1011 carrier plane.
A packed auditorium at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) gives a thumps-up for the successful launch of NuSTAR.
Two of the youngest members of the extended NuSTAR team are posing in front of a to-scale model of the satellite, only minutes before launch.
Photograph • June 11, 2012
Member of the NuSTAR team at the California Institute of Technology put up a large decal on the wall of the Science Operation Center.
Photograph • January 27, 2012
The payload transporter carrying the environmentally controlled shipping container enclosing NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is parked in the airlock at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
An Orbital Sciences technician completes final checks of NuSTAR, inside the Orbital Sciences processing facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California before the Pegasus payload fairing is secured around it.
The Pegasus rocket carrying NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array can be seen at the belly of its carrier plane, the "Stargazer," as it lands on Kwajalein Atoll.
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, enclosed in an environmentally controlled shipping container, is trucked by trailer to processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
In the airlock at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, a lifting fixture is employed to hoist NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array from its shipping container. NuSTAR was integrated into its Pegaus launch rocket at VAFB.
In the airlock of processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, workers secure NuSTAR onto a handling dolly.
Photograph • January 1, 2012
The integrated NuSTAR observatory, including the instrument and spacecraft, at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia in January 2012.
Photograph • June 29, 2011
The integrated NuSTAR observatory, including the instrument and spacecraft, at Orbital Sciences Corporation in Dulles, Virginia on June 29, 2011.
Photograph • December 1, 2010
The final pre-launch deployment of the NuSTAR articulated mast occurred on in late 2010.
Photograph • May 16, 2010
Assembly of the first NuSTAR optics module (FM0). NuSTAR flies two optics units, each with 133 layers of grazing incidence optics.
Photograph • August 1, 2009
Niko Stergiou, a contractor at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, helped manufacture the 9,000 mirror segments that make up the optics unit in the NuSTAR mission.
Essential to the NuSTAR design is a deployable mast which extended to 10 meters (30 feet) after launch. This mast separates the NuSTAR X-ray optics from the detectors, a necessity to achieve the long focal length required by the optics design.
The NuSTAR glass optics are being shaped at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) mirror development lab, led by Will Zhang.
