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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Monday, 24 September 2007 | |
  
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Science Discussions"We are very excited to be able restart the NuSTAR mission, which we expect to be launched in 2011," said Alan Stern, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "NuSTAR has more than 500 times the sensitivity of previous instruments that detect black holes. It's a great opportunity for us to explore an important astronomical frontier." NuSTAR should be launched in 2011, according to NASA officials, and will fill the gap between the 2009 launch of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the 2013 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The NuSTAR project is a partnership involving Caltech, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Columbia University, the Danish National Space Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, U.C. Santa Cruz, Sonoma State University, General Dynamics Spectrum Astro, and ABLE Engineering. It is led by Fiona Harrison of Caltech. |
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