Air-launched from the Stargazer L-1011 near Kwajalein Atoll, deploying NASA's NuSTAR X-ray space telescope into low-Earth orbit. NuSTAR became the most sensitive hard X-ray observatory flown to date.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 360 kg
- Flight
- 26th
- of 31 Pegasus XL flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 2012, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Builder
- OSC
- Launch site
- Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 2012-031
- Launches in 2012
- 33rd of 78
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: NuSTAR
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