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NASA’s Swift observatory is about to fall from orbit—but a startup might save it in time

Katalyst's robotic mission attempts to dock and raise the aging satellite's altitude before reentry.

NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory will search for life outside our solar system

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory "will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space ...

Inside Nasa’s Rs 283.8-crore plan to stop a falling satellite from crashing to Earth

Nasa’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has been orbiting the Earth for over two decades. Now, it is slowly falling out of ...

Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is in a race against time. For more than 21 years the Earth-orbiting telescope has ...
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To save aging space observatory, NASA taps startup to push it farther in space

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth's atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a ...

A unique NASA satellite is falling out of orbit—this team is trying to rescue it

BROOMFIELD, Colorado—One of NASA’s oldest astronomy missions, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, has been out of action for ...
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NASA’s Roman Observatory Passes Final Major Prelaunch Tests

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team recently blasted the observatory with extreme sound, shook it, and listened to ...

NASA X-ray mission gets fresh look at 2,000-year-old supernova

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission has taken a new observation of a supernova, RCW 86, helping fill in ...
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NASA to rescue aging satellite using private spacecraft

NASA has contracted Katalyst Space Technologies to launch a $30 million rescue mission for the ageing Neil Gehrels Swift ...