Topic: Kwajalein Atoll
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NASA's new telescope to scan skies for black holes (+video)
Scheduled to launch from a Pacific atoll Wednesday, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuStar, will search for X-ray emissions around black holes.
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NASA to launch school-bus-sized space telescope to hunt black holes (+video)
NASA's $165 million Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission will scan the skies for X-ray emissions from black holes.
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What goes on at the edge of a black hole? NASA launches NuSTAR to find out. (+video)
NASA will launch the orbiting X-ray observatory NuSTAR Wednesday in hopes of plunging deeper into the secrets of black holes and supernovae.
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NASA's NuSTAR telescope will hunt black holes
The space agency's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is slated to launch June 13 from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
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Will crash of hypersonic Falcon HTV-2 set back Pentagon's ambitious plans?
Thursday's test flight of the Falcon HTV-2 ended with signals lost and a crash landing into the Pacific – but not before it sent engineers half an hour of flight data. The Pentagon hopes the design will allow a non-nuclear response to threats anywhere in the world, within one hour.
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US missile defense satellites pass big test
Two experimental US missile defense satellites have passed a series of vital tests in space, successfully spotting three missile launches and relaying their data back to Earth.
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New privately-owned rocket, the Falcon 9, poised for first launch
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket could eventually be modified to carry people to space.
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Privately owned rocket ready for maiden voyage
The Falcon 9 rocket, built by Space Exploration Technologies, could make its first test as soon as May 28. It could be modified to carry people into orbit, company officials said.
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