NASA to Host News Teleconference About NuSTAR Launch

June 6, 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

Robert Sanders
University of California, Berkeley
510-643-6998
rlsanders@berkeley.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY: M12-106

NASA TO HOST NEWS TELECONFERENCE ABOUT NUSTAR LAUNCH

WASHINGTON -- NASA will host a news teleconference 3 p.m. EDT June 11
to discuss the upcoming launch of its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope
Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft which is scheduled for no earlier than
11:30 a.m. EDT June 13.

The observatory, a black-hole hunter with sharp X-ray eyes, will be
launched from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. NuSTAR is
attached to an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket which
is mounted on the bottom of an L-1011 Stargazer aircraft. The
airplane will take off from Kwajalein Atoll and release the rocket,
which will ignite its engines in the air. The Stargazer departed
Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California June 5 and will land
at Kwajalein June 6.

Panelists include:
-- Omar Baez, NASA launch director, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
-- Fiona Harrison, NuSTAR principal investigator, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
-- William Craig, NuSTAR instrument manager, University of California
at Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
-- Grace Baird, NuSTAR bus chief engineer, Orbital Sciences
Corporation, Dulles, Va.

The news teleconference will take place at the Space Sciences
Laboratory at UC Berkeley. Local reporters wanting to attend must
send an email to Robert Sanders at rlsanders@berkeley.edu by 2 p.m.
EDT June 11.

For dial-in information, reporters must email their name, media
affiliation and telephone number to J.D. Harrington at
j.d.harrington@nasa.gov by 2 p.m. EDT June 11.

Graphics presented during the teleconference will be online shortly
before the start of the teleconference at:

http://1.usa.gov/nustar

Live audio of the teleconference will be available at:

http://www.nasa.gov/newsaudio

On June 13, launch coverage and commentary will be broadcast online
beginning 90 minutes before launch at:

http://www.nasa.gov/nustar


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