Saturday, June 30, 2012

NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast

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NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast:

Artist's concept of NuSTAR in orbit. NuSTAR has a 33-foot (10-meter) mast that deploys after launch to separate the optics modules (right) from the detectors in the focal plane (left).


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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