“NuSTAR” successfully launched by NASA
NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array)
NASA successfully launched NuSTAR
Launched from: Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands
Launched after a 2-stage aircraft-to-rocket takeoff
NuSTAR:-
- A space-based X-ray telescope that will use a Wolter telescope to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources, especially for nuclear spectroscopy
- The first space-based direct-imaging X-ray telescope at energies beyond those of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton
Primary Objective:
- Conducting a deep survey for black holes a billion times more massive than our sun,
- Understanding how particles are accelerated to within a fraction of a percent of the speed of light in active galaxies,
- Understanding how the elements are created in the explosions of massive stars by imaging the remains, which are called supernova remnants