NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission

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Whitney Clavin (818) 354-4673
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News release: 2012-067 March 8, 2012

NASA to Hold Media Briefing About Upcoming NuSTAR Mission

The full version of this story with accompanying images is at:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-067&cid=release_2012-067

NASA will hold a media briefing at 9 a.m. PDT (12 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, March 13, to discuss
the upcoming launch of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). The mission
will use advanced optics and detectors, allowing astronomers to observe the high-energy X-ray
sky with much greater sensitivity and clarity than any mission flown to-date. The televised
briefing will take place at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Live streaming video of the briefing will be available at http://www.nasa.gov/ntv or at
http://ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

NuSTAR will advance our understanding of how structure in the universe forms and evolves. It
will observe some of the hottest, densest and most energetic objects in the universe, including
black holes, their high-speed particle jets, ultra-dense neutron stars, supernova remnants, and our
sun.

NuSTAR is targeted for launch no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT) on March 22.
The launch window extends to 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT). The spacecraft will liftoff on
an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL launch vehicle, released from an aircraft originating from the
Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

Briefing Participants are:
-- Paul Hertz, astrophysics division director at NASA Headquarters in Washington
-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator at the California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, Calif.
-- Daniel Stern, NuSTAR project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
Calif.
-- Yunjin Kim, NuSTAR project manager at JPL

NuSTAR is a Small Explorer mission led by the California Institute of Technology and
managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, both in Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science
Mission Directorate. The spacecraft was built by Orbital Sciences Corporation, Dulles, Va. Its
instrument was built by a consortium including Caltech; JPL; the University of California,
Berkeley; Columbia University, New York; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Md.; the Danish Technical University in Denmark; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Calif.; and ATK Aerospace Systems, Goleta, Calif. NuSTAR will be operated by UC Berkeley,
with the Italian Space Agency providing its equatorial ground station located at Malindi, Kenya.
The mission's outreach program is based at Sonoma State University, Calif. NASA's Explorer
Program is managed by Goddard. JPL is managed by Caltech for NASA.

For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/nustar and http://www.nustar.caltech.edu/ .

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