Rescue mission launched: NASA launched the LINK spacecraft aboard a Pegasus XL rocket to save the Swift Observatory from re-entering Earth's atmosphere. High stakes technology: The mission tests ...

Fresh images from orbit mark an important step in an ambitious mission that aims to give one of NASA's longest-running space observatories a new lease of life.

Four years ago, entrepreneur and private astronaut Jared Isaacman proposed a mission to NASA: Reboost the Hubble Space ...

NASA’s effort to save the Swift space telescope from an uncontrolled reentry has crossed a critical threshold: ground teams have established contact with the LINK spacecraft that will attempt to raise ...

High above the remote Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and the northernmost part of Australia, an air-launched rocket fired into space on Independence Day weekend to kick off a weekslong ...

The NASA Swift Boost mission has launched from Marshall Islands on July 3 at 4:36AM Eastern time after a couple of delays, and the agency has started preparing it for its ultimate goal: To rescue the ...

Weather and technical snags have forced NASA and its partner space company Katalyst to ​indefinitely postpone a first-of-its-kind mission to tow an aging U.S. satellite observatory into a safer orbit ...

NASA’s never-before-attempted plan to move a sensitive scientific satellite into a safer orbit has faced a week of delays—but it’s still go for launch.

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will burn up in the atmosphere within a few months. By Kenneth Chang See more of ...

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An Arizona startup, Katalyst Space Technologies, is undertaking a daring mission to save NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Launched in 2004, Swift is a crucial telescope for studying gamma-ray ...