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NASA's NuSTAR Gearing up for Launch

News Release • May 22, 2012

Final pre-launch preparations are underway for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for hidden black holes, is scheduled to launch no earlier than June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

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Launch of NASA's NuSTAR Mission Postponed

News Release • March 16, 2012

The planned launch of NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array mission has been postponed after a March 15 launch status meeting. The launch will be rescheduled to allow additional time to confirm the flight software used by the launch vehicle's flight computer will issue commands to the rocket as intended.

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NASA March 13 NuSTAR Media Briefing Postponed

News Release • March 12, 2012

The Tuesday, March 13, media briefing to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array has been postponed.

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NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission

News Release • March 8, 2012

NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array.

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Engineers Tuck NuSTAR in its Nose Cone

News Release • March 2, 2012

Technicians at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California are placing the two halves of the rocket nose cone, or fairing, around NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, in preparation for its launch.

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NuSTAR Mated to its Rocket

News Release • February 17, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is being mated, or attached, to its Pegasus XL rocket today at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California.

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NuSTAR Spacecraft Arrives in California

News Release • January 27, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this morning after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va.

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NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March Launch

News Release • January 25, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle.

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Why Won't the Supernova Explode?

Feature Story • January 7, 2010

After it launches in 2011 aboard a Pegasus rocket, NuSTAR will give scientists an unprecedented view of high-energy X-rays coming from supernova remnants, black holes, blazars, and other extreme cosmic phenomena.

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NASA Approves X-ray Space Mission

News Release • September 4, 2009

NASA recently confirmed that the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission will launch in August 2011.

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NASA Restarts Telescope Mission to Detect Black Holes

News Release • September 21, 2007

NASA has made a decision to restart an astronomy mission that will have greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the local universe.

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NASA Selects Small Explorer Missions

News Release • January 26, 2005

The selected proposals were among 29 SMEX and eight mission-of-opportunity proposals originally submitted to NASA in May 2003 in response to an Explorer Program Announcement of Opportunity issued in February 2003.

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