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Swift Reboost Mission Encounters Setback

Swift Reboost Mission Encounters Setback NASA library image

Image: NASA, library image. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - The red NASA engine hauls its cargo toward Titusville, Fla. The containers enclose segments of a solid rocket b

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Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK servicing spacecraft, launched on a Pegasus XL mission to rendezvous with NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has run into trouble: LINK is now in a multi-axis spin. The spacecraft was meant to attach to Swift and raise its orbit under a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 contract.

Katalyst Space’s efforts to reboost NASA’s Swift observatory has encountered a setback. The LINK on-orbit servicing spacecraft is in a multi-axis spin. LINK must attach itself to Swift and raise […]

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