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The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is a pathfinder mission that will open the high energy X-ray sky for sensitive study for the first time. X-ray telescopes like Chandra and XMM-Newton have peered deep into the X-ray universe at low X-ray energy (X-ray energies less than 10 keV). By focusing X-rays at higher energy, up to 79 keV, NuSTAR will answer fundamental questions about the Universe: How are black holes distributed through the cosmos? How were the elements that compose our bodies and the Earth forged in the explosions of massive stars? What powers the most extreme active galaxies? Perhaps most exciting is the opportunity to fill a blank map with wonders we have not yet dreamed of: NuSTAR offers the opportunity to explore our Universe in an entirely new way.
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January 30, 2008
NuSTAR approved to start Phase B
September 21, 2007
NuSTAR given the go-ahead to restart
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January 26, 2005
NuSTAR selected for Extended Phase "A"
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