Space & Earth Science
NORAD ID: 38358
Int'l Code: 2012-031A
Perigee: 615.0 km
Apogee: 632.6 km
Inclination: 6.0 °
Period: 97.0 minutes
Semi major axis: 6994 km
Launch date: June 13, 2012
Source: United States (US)
Comments: NuSTAR is a small X-ray telescope, considered the first step in an ambitious low-cost mission to study supermassive black holes believed to be lurking at the cores of galaxies like Earth's Milky Way and to probe the creation of heavy elements in the cataclysmic death throes of massive stars. While X-ray telescopes sensitive to lower energies have been operated with great success, the $180 million Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar, is the first space telescope designed to focus higher-energy X-rays like those used for medical imaging and dental X-rays.
Two Line Element Set (TLE):
1 38358U 12031A 14070.30031865 .00004636 00000-0 46202-3 0 3969
2 38358 006.0243 317.4173 0012609 052.3138 307.8053 14.84014236 94507
Source: AFSPC
NASA's NSSDC Master Catalog entry for NUSTAR
