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NASA’s Bold Rescue for Swift Observatory
NASA’s aging Swift Observatory, stranded by solar storms and plummeting toward retirement, is getting a robotic lifeline. For $30 million, a daring rescue mission is underway — NASA’s first-ever robotic satellite capture, led by startup Katalyst Space Technologies. Their three-armed robot will snag the refrigerator-sized observatory, boost it to a stable orbit, and keep it alive until at least September. If successful, this could usher in a new age of space repair, refueling, and even construction — with Hubble on the horizon. Losing Swift means losing a cosmic first responder; saving it…
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