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NuSTAR Mission Status Report

News Release • June 27, 2012

After deploying its mast, the NuSTAR observatory began a series of checkout procedures.

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Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast

News Release • June 21, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe.

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NASA's NuSTAR Mission Lifts Off

News Release • June 13, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array launched into the morning skies over the central Pacific Ocean at 9 a.m. PDT Wednesday, beginning its mission to unveil secrets of buried black holes and other exotic objects.

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NuSTAR to Drop From Plane and Rocket Into Space

News Release • June 11, 2012

The observatory, which will hunt for black holes and other exotic objects using specialized X-ray eyes, will be launched from a Pegasus XL rocket carried by an Orbital Science Corporation L-1011 "Stargazer" plane.

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NuSTAR Arrives at Island Launch Site

News Release • June 7, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, and its rocket flew above the palm trees to arrive at their launch location at the U.S. Army's Reagan test site at Kwajalein Atoll.

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NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch

News Release • June 6, 2012

NASA will host a news teleconference at noon PDT (3 p.m. EDT) June 11 to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array observatory, scheduled for no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) June 13.

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NuSTAR to Open X-ray Eyes on Universe

Feature Story • June 5, 2012

NASA's next observatory is about the size of a refrigerator, but it is expected to uncover some of the most powerful structures in the universe.

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NuSTAR Strapped to its Plane

News Release • June 4, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is now perched atop its Pegasus XL rocket, strapped to the plane that will carry the mission to an airborne launch.

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NASA is Preparing to Launch its Newest Observatory with X-Ray Eyes

News Release • May 30, 2012

NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is being prepared for the final journey to its launch pad on Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean.

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NASA to Hold News Conference About NuSTAR Launch

News Release • May 24, 2012

NASA will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 30 at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, a mission to hunt for black holes.

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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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