A daring mission failed to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope, and the nearly 22-year-old observatory will soon burn up in Earth’s ...
A commercial mission to boost NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ended without raising the spacecraft's orbit, but the ...
A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA's Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. But details are sparse at the moment.
NASA's bid to save a 22-year-old space telescope is over and the robotic spacecraft sent for the rescue mission returned to ...
The first in a new class of space telescopes is on track to reach the launch pad in the early 2030s, NASA announced this week ...
Series of in-flight problems meant Link, a ‘commercial space robot’, could not salvage the Nasa observatory ...
NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...
Katalyst Space Technologies announced the demise of its three-armed spacecraft, named Link. It reentered the atmosphere overnight, bringing the $30 million, NASA-sponsored salvage effort of the Swift ...
The Swift rescue mission was always risky. NASA awarded Katalyst a $30 million contract less than a year ago to build and launch the Link satellite. NASA said Katalyst had to launch the rescue mission ...