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January 27th, 2012
NuSTAR's Carrier Plane Touches Down
The Pegasus rocket carrying NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) can be seen at the belly of its carrier plane, the "Stargazer," as it lands on Kwajalein Atoll. The plane lifted...
January 27th, 2012
Wrapping NuSTAR in Its Rocket Nose Cone
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...
January 27th, 2012
The payload transporter carrying the environmentally controlled shipping container enclosing NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is parked in the airlock at Vandenberg Air Force...
January 27th, 2012
In the airlock of processing facility 1555 at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, workers secure NuSTAR onto a handling dolly. NuSTAR was integrated into its Pegaus launch rocket at VAFB.
January 27th, 2012
In the airlock at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, a lifting fixture is employed to hoist NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) from its shipping container. NuSTAR...
January 1st, 2012
The integrated NuSTAR observatory, including the instrument and spacecraft, at Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) in Dulles, Virginia in January 2012. At this stage, the observatory had...
June 29th, 2011
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...
December 1st, 2010
Final Pre-Launch Mast Deployment
The final pre-launch deployment of the NuSTAR articulated mast occurred on in late 2010. The mast was launched in a compressed state, expanding to 10 meter (33 feet) when deployed. This provided...
May 16th, 2010
Assembly of First Optics Module
Assembly of the first NuSTAR optics module (“FM0”). NuSTAR flies two optics units, each with 133 layers of grazing incidence optics. Using epoxy and graphite spacers, the layers were built up,...
August 1st, 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.
August 1st, 2009
Mast Deployment Test on the Ground
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...
August 1st, 2009
The NuSTAR glass optics are being shaped at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) mirror development lab, led by Will Zhang. The mirror team has worked over the past decade perfecting a new...
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