#swiftobservatory — Public Fediverse posts
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"There are no features on Swift that are designed to capture.There’s a lack of documentation to even help us figure out where those features would be if they existed..."
That's surprising.
If it were some old dad's spacecraft (mine, for instance) the docs would be in the "garage" because "I might need this later."
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"There are no features on Swift that are designed to capture.There’s a lack of documentation to even help us figure out where those features would be if they existed..."
That's surprising.
If it were some old dad's spacecraft (mine, for instance) the docs would be in the "garage" because "I might need this later."
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"The mission came together in just nine months."
And maybe consider a mission like this for the ISS, rather than have it hit Earth and pollute the atmosphere?.
Such an ignoble end for the venerated station, I appreciate it can't be habitable forever but why destroy it? -
"The mission came together in just nine months."
And maybe consider a mission like this for the ISS, rather than have it hit Earth and pollute the atmosphere?.
Such an ignoble end for the venerated station, I appreciate it can't be habitable forever but why destroy it? -
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once it takes off from an atoll
in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands
aboard an airplane-launched Pegasus rocket.
Liftoff could occur as early as Tuesday.Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004,
Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity.
It needs to get to a higher, more stable orbit as soon as possible to survive.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
— also at risk — could be next.
Like Swift, Hubble is losing altitude as the sun erupts with one flare after another.
Katalyst Space CEO Ghonhee Lee said his company’s next-generation robot, still in development,
could save the day for the much bigger Hubble in a couple years
#swiftobservatory #katalystspace
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-swift-satellite-rescue-mission-f715e10a93c1015e280a7ccd1028a9c4 -
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup
Katalyst Space Technologies
to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit
where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once it takes off from an atoll
in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands
aboard an airplane-launched Pegasus rocket.
Liftoff could occur as early as Tuesday.Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004,
Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity.
It needs to get to a higher, more stable orbit as soon as possible to survive.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
— also at risk — could be next.
Like Swift, Hubble is losing altitude as the sun erupts with one flare after another.
Katalyst Space CEO Ghonhee Lee said his company’s next-generation robot, still in development,
could save the day for the much bigger Hubble in a couple years
#swiftobservatory #katalystspace
https://apnews.com/article/nasa-swift-satellite-rescue-mission-f715e10a93c1015e280a7ccd1028a9c4 -
Katalyst Space has completed environmental testing of its robotic spacecraft, LINK, clearing a key milestone toward launch. LINK will capture and raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it reenters Earth’s atmosphere later this year.
https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone
#space #katalyst #link #spacecraft #SwiftObservatory #astronomy #astrodon #science #news #LINKspacecraft
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Katalyst Space has completed environmental testing of its robotic spacecraft, LINK, clearing a key milestone toward launch. LINK will capture and raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory before it reenters Earth’s atmosphere later this year.
https://www.katalystspace.com/post/katalyst-robotic-spacecraft-passes-testing-milestone
#space #katalyst #link #spacecraft #SwiftObservatory #astronomy #astrodon #science #news #LINKspacecraft
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A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June.
#space #katalyst #link #spacecraft #SwiftObservatory #astronomy #astrodon #science #news #LINKspacecraft
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A daring mission to lift NASA’s sinking Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is now one step closer to launch this June.
#space #katalyst #link #spacecraft #SwiftObservatory #astronomy #astrodon #science #news #LINKspacecraft
