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Swift Telescope Rescue Mission Scrubbed | Charlotte News
NASA’s last-ditch rescue mission to save the aging Swift Observatory has been scrapped after its spacecraft, Link, suffered critical control failures just weeks after launch. Built by Katalyst Space Technologies in under a year, Link was meant to capture and boost Swift into a higher orbit — a $30 million effort aimed at extending the telescope’s 20-year legacy of studying gamma rays and exploding stars. But intense solar activity accelerated Swift’s descent, while Link’s inability to stabilize itself doomed the mission. Though NASA and Katalyst acknowledge the disappointment, they’re turning…
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