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Extended Mission

NuSTAR

NuSTAR uses a deployable mast to focus hard X-rays, revealing black holes, supernova remnants and compact objects in a high-energy band that earlier observatories could not image sharply.

Technical specifications

3D model is aproximate

CATEGORY

Observatory

TYPE

Telescope

COUNTRY

United States

OPERATOR

NASA

LAUNCH DATE

Jun 13, 2012

LAUNCH SITE

Cape Canaveral

ORBIT CLASS

LEO

ALTITUDE · KM

540

ORBITAL PERIOD · MIN

95.44

INCLINATION · DEG

6.03

APOGEE · KM

544

PERIGEE · KM

535

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