Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
Sign in to saveNuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, also named Explorer 93 and SMEX-11) is a NASA space-based X-ray telescope that uses a conical approximation to a Wolter telescope to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources, especially for nuclear spectroscopy, and operates in the range of 3 to 79 keV.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- NuSTAR
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Explorer 93Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ArraySMEX-11
- Spaceflight.image
- NuSTAR spacecraft model.png
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- NuSTAR (Explorer 93) satellite
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- X-ray astronomy
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASAJPL
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2012-031A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 38358
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 2 years (planned) (in progress)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft
- Explorer XCIII
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_type
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- LEOStar-2
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Orbital ATK (formerly Orbital Sciences Corporation and ATK Space Components)
- Spaceflight.power
- 750 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 13 June 2012, 16:00:37 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Pegasus XL (F41)
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kwajalein Atoll, Stargazer
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Launch
- Optics
- Detectors
- Major scientific results
- Spin measurement of a supermassive black hole
- Tracing radioactivity in a supernova remnant
- Nearby supermassive black holes
- Measurement of temperature variations of AGN wind
- Detection of light reflecting behind a black hole
- Ultra-luminous neutron star violating the Eddington limit
- See also
- References
- External links
NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, also named Explorer 93 and SMEX-11) is a NASA space-based X-ray telescope that uses a conical approximation to a Wolter telescope to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources, especially for nuclear spectroscopy, and operates in the range of 3 to 79 keV.
NuSTAR is the eleventh mission of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX-11) satellite program and the first space-based direct-imaging X-ray telescope at energies beyond those of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton. It was successfully launched on 13 June 2012, having previously been delayed from 21 March 2012 due to software issues with the launch vehicle.