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Private spacecraft will give NASA’s Swift space telescope an orbital boost in 2026 in 1st-of-its-kind mission

Private spacecraft will give NASA’s Swift space telescope an orbital boost in 2026 in 1st-of-its-kind mission

A private company will give a powerful NASA space telescope a new lease on life next year, if all goes according to plan. Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies has scored a contract to raise the altitude of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which has been hunting for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from low Earth orbit (LEO) for more than two decades. Sparse …

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