Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft....

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• SpaceNews

  Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboost Katalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft....
• The Independent left

  NASA calls off rescue mission for falling space telescope
• Aviation Week

  NASA Calls Off Swift Telescope Reboost
• Kenneth Chang

  NASA’s Swift Observatory is doomed www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/s...
• New Scientist

  The Swift observatory will now re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in a few months, after a mission to boost it higher failed
• The Verge left

  NASA gives up on trying to rescue the Swift telescope
• upi.com center

  NASA calls off mission to save Swift Observatory telescope in space