NASA plans Swift telescope rescue with Katalyst spacecraft (opens in new tab)

NASA is preparing a mission to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a space telescope that is slowly falling toward Earth after more than 20 years of observing high-energy events such as gamma-ray bursts. The plan calls for Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK spacecraft to rendezvous with Swift, capture it and boost it to a higher altitude in what Phys.org described as the first mission of its kind. The launch is planned for later in June, with Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL ro...