Katalyst LINK Suffers Attitude-Control Issue
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Mark Carreau
July 28, 2026
NASA’s Swift Observatory is a satellite that studies gamma-ray bursts and other cosmic objects and events. Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—A mission designed to give NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory a new lease on life has encountered its first major hurdle after Katalyst’s Lightweight In-space Navigation and Kinematics (LINK) servicing spacecraft developed attitude-control problems. A NASA bulletin released July 28…
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