NASA announced Aug. 19 that the Katalyst Space LINK spacecraft built to boost the aging Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will still rendezvous with the telescope but won’t raise its orbit, after an attitude-control failure sidelined LINK during on-orbit commissioning. The Swift Boost Mission was a quick-turnaround rescue attempt designed to save the Swift observatory fromContinue reading “LINK to meet with Swift, but won’t boost”
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