Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array
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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.
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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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.