NuSTAR Flight Readiness Review and Media Briefing Postponed
NASA announced today that the Flight Readiness Review (FRR) for its NuSTAR mission is being delayed and thus a media briefing scheduled for tomorrow (Tuesday) is postponed.
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission will be launched on Orbital Sciences Corp.’s Pegasus rocket. NASA’s announcement said that additional time is needed “for a review of data and simulations to qualify software associated with a new Pegasus flight computer.” NuSTAR is an X-ray telescope. Fiona Harrison of CalTech is the principal investigator for the mission.
The Pegasus rocket is dropped from an aircraft. In this case, the aircraft will depart from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands (in the Pacific). The launch was scheduled for March 22; a new launch date will be announced once the FRR is completed.
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