NASA To Hold News Conference About Upcoming NuSTAR Launch

May 24, 2012

J.D. Harrington
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-5241
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov

Whitney Clavin
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-4673
whitney.clavin@jpl.nasa.gov

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NASA TO HOLD NEWS CONFERENCE ABOUT UPCOMING NUSTAR LAUNCH

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference on Wednesday, May 30 at
1 p.m. EDT to discuss the upcoming launch of the Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), a mission to hunt for black
holes. The event will be held in the James E. Webb Auditorium at NASA
Headquarters located at 300 E St. SW in Washington.

The event will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on
the agency's website.

NuSTAR will observe some of the hottest, densest and most energetic
objects in the universe, including black holes, their high-speed
particle jets, ultra-dense neutron stars, supernova remnants and our
sun. It will observe high-energy X-rays with much greater sensitivity
and clarity than any mission flown to date. Among its several goals,
NuSTAR will address the puzzle of how black holes and galaxies evolve
together over time.

NuSTAR is scheduled to launch no earlier than 11:30 a.m. EDT on June
13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The spacecraft will
lift off on an Orbital Sciences Pegasus XL launch vehicle, released
from an aircraft flying south of Kwajalein.

News conference participants are:

-- Paul Hertz, Astrophysics Division director at NASA Headquarters in
Washington
-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif. -- Daniel Stern, NuSTAR
project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena
-- Yunjin Kim, NuSTAR project manager at JPL

Reporters unable to attend the briefing in-person can ask questions
from other NASA centers, by telephone or via Twitter using the
hashtag #asknasa.

For dial-in information, reporters should send their name, media
affiliation and telephone number to j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by Noon
on May 30.

For NASA TV streaming video, downlink and scheduling information,
visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For more information about the NuStar mission, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/nustar


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