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Article: NASA Awards Launch Services for NuSTAR Mission to Orbital Sciences
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- February 9, 2009
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Katherine Trinidad, Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-
358-1100, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; or George H. Diller, Kennedy
Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, george.h.diller@nasa.gov, both
of NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has
selected Orbital Sciences Corp., of Dulles, Va., to launch the
Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, high energy X-ray
telescope. The spacecraft will fly in 2011 aboard a Pegasus XL
rocket from the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
located at the Pacific Ocean's Kwajalein Atoll.
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The total cost of the NuSTAR ...