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NASA’s Bold Space Rescue Mission
NASA’s pulling out all the stops to save the aging Swift Observatory, launching a robotic rescue mission by startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost it into a higher orbit before it crashes in October. Priced at $30 million, this daring in-space repair could get Swift back online by September—keeping its vital cosmic explosion-hunting mission alive. The mission also hints at a bigger future: Katalyst’s next-gen robot could one day save Hubble, and beyond that, revolutionize space maintenance with fleets of robots refueling, repairing, and even constructing in orbit. It’s a high-stakes…
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