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NASA’s Robot Rescue Mission for Swift
NASA’s aging Swift telescope, stranded by solar storms and plummeting toward oblivion, is getting a robotic lifeline. A $30 million rescue mission, spearheaded by startup Katalyst Space Technologies, aims to boost the telescope into a safer orbit using a three-armed robotic spacecraft launching from the Marshall Islands. If successful by September, this daring operation could revolutionize space maintenance—potentially enabling robotic repairs, refueling, and construction in orbit. While Swift’s rescue is a last-ditch effort to preserve a vital cosmic observer, it’s also a bold test for…
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