Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Mission
Artist's conception of NuSTAR in orbit. The background is an image of the Galactic Center from Chandra. (Credit: NASA)
Lifetime: June 2012 - present
Country (primary): United States
Primary Science
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Mission, or NuSTAR for short, is a high-energy X-ray telescope designed to study supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies and to probe the creation of heavy elements in the cataclysmic death throes of massive stars.