NuSTAR
TelescopeSmall satellite whose two telescopes focus X-rays onto detectors at the end of a 10 m mast, unfolded after launch.
- Launch mass
- 360 kg
- Size
- 1.5 m × 1.1 m, span 11.1 m
- Power
- Solar
- Built by
- Orbital Sciences
- Designator
- 2012-031A
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 13 Jun 201216:00:42 UTC
- Active for
- 14 years 5 months
- Destinations
- Low Earth orbit
The first telescope to focus high-energy X-rays, used to study black holes, exploded stars and the hottest regions around them.
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Spacecraft
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Mission details from science.nasa.gov.