Payload
NUSTAR
OperationalPayloadLEO
NUSTAR is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) payload satellite, launched on June 13, 2012 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- June 13, 2012 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Pegasus XL →
- Operator
- Orbital Sciences Corporation
- Mission
- Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 545 km
- Periapsis
- 535 km
- Inclination
- 6.03°
- Orbital period
- 95.44 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Manufacturer
- Orbital Sciences Corp.
- Users
- Government
- Launch mass
- 360 kg
- Design lifetime
- 2 years
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2012-031A
- NORAD catalog №
- 38358
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Radar cross-section
- 1.2619 m²
- Status
- Operational