NUSTAR

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NUSTAR is classified as:

Space & Earth Science

NORAD ID: 38358

Int'l Code: 2012-031A

Perigee: 602.5 km

Apogee: 618.5 km

Inclination: 6.0 °

Period: 96.8 minutes

Semi major axis: 6981 km

RCS: 1 m² (large)

Launch date: June 13, 2012
Source: United States (US)
Launch site: Kwajalein (KWAJ)

NuSTAR is a small X-ray telescope, considered the first step in an ambitious low-cost mission to study supermassive black holes believed to be lurking at the cores of galaxies like Earth's Milky Way and to probe the creation of heavy elements in the cataclysmic death throes of massive stars. While X-ray telescopes sensitive to lower energies have been operated with great success, the $180 million Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar, is the first space telescope designed to focus higher-energy X-rays like those used for medical imaging and dental X-rays.

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2 38358 006.0279 022.8239 0011461 034.3076 325.7792 14.88257686418884

Source of the keplerian elements: AFSPC