About the People and Places Involved in the NuSTAR Mission

The NuSTAR Project is implemented by a team that includes university groups, NASA centers, and industry partners. Key institutions are:

• California Institute of Technology; Principal Investigator, instrument focal plane and electronics
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory; management, system engineering, structures and metrology
• Orbital Sciences Corporation: Spacecraft and Mission Operations Center
• Columbia University; X-ray optics lead
• DTU Space; optics multilayer coatings and calibration
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; optics engineering
• University of California at Berkeley; mission operations and shielding
• University of California at Santa Cruz; data analysis systems software
• Stanford University and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; project science, optics
• ATK Space Systems Goleta; extendable mast
• Sonoma State University ; Education and Public Outreach
• Goddard Space Flight Center; Explorer program management

The team is lead by PI Fiona Harrison from Caltech, and includes a dedicated group of scientists, engineers and managers.