nuclear spectroscopic telescope array

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, is future space-based X-ray telescope. It will use grazing incidence mirrors to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources. Its primary goals are to conduct a deep survey for supermassive black holes, study particle acceleration in active galaxies, and measure radioactive isotopes in young supernova remnants in our own Galaxy. NuSTAR is a NASA Small Explorer class mission. The Principal Investigator is Fiona Harrison, of the California Institute of Technology. Other partners include the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Columbia University, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the University of California, Santa Cruz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Sonoma State University, and the Danish Space Research Institute. NuSTAR's planned launch date is February 2009.

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