29-07-2026 20:00 via space.com

NASA launched this spacecraft to save a satellite. Now, it needs saving too

Things aren't going so well for NASA's latest satellite rescue mission.NASA launched the Swift Boost mission on July 3, sending a specialized spacecraft to low Earth orbit on the final flight of Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus XL rocket. The spacecraft is called LINK and was built by Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies. LINK was sent to orbit to try and link up with NASA's Swift observatory, a highly successful scientific satellite designed to search for gamma-ray bursts, some of t
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