On June 11, NASA will conduct a news teleconference, wherein it will confer about the impending launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft. This soon-to-launch NuSTAR will take off on June 13, around 11:30 a.m. EDT.
The observatory features a black-hole hunter that has intense X-ray eyes. It will be launched from central Pacific Ocean’s Kwajalein Atoll. NuSTAR is equipped to an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL rocket, which is positioned beneath an L-1011 Stargazer aircraft.
The rocket will be released, following the airplane’s launch from Kwajalein Atoll. It will fire its engines in the air. On June 5, the Stargazer took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California and on June 6, it landed at Kwajalein.
The news teleconference will include the following panelists:
- Grace Baird, NuSTAR bus chief engineer at Orbital Sciences, Dulles, Va.
- Omar Baez, NASA launch director at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
- William Craig, NuSTAR instrument manager from University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
The news teleconference will be hosted at UC Berkeley’s the Space Sciences Laboratory.
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/