NASA Taps Orbital To Launch NuSTAR Telescope
Orbital Sciences will use an air-launched Pegasus XL to loft NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) under a new contract worth about $36 million. The first orbiting high-energy X-ray telescope with focusing capability, NuSTAR is intended to conduct a census of black holes and study...
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