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Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is set to launch from an airplane in the Marshall Islands with a single objective: boost NASA's Swift Observatory's orbit before the space telescope burns up on re-entry.
The startup's mission stands as one of the most commercially significant tests yet of whether a private company can service — and physically rescue — a government science satellite in active orbital decay.
Swift Observatory: Running Out of Altitude NASA's Swift Observatory is dangerously close to burning up.
The telescope has been losing altitude, and without a propulsive boost from an external vehicle, it will continue sinking until it re-enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed.
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