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 ...

A high-stakes mission to save NASA's Swift Observatory from a fiery end has relied on Arizona. Here's an inside look ahead of a June 2026 launch.

NASA's Swift Observatory is in peril. A last minute mission to save it could make spaceflight history. Here's everything to know.

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON, July 3 (Reuters) - NASA and Arizona-based startup Katalyst launched a robotic spacecraft over the Pacific on Thursday on a mission to rescue an aging NASA ...

NASA has launched the LINK spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with the aging Swift observatory and boost it into a higher orbit before reentry.

NASA’s attempt to save an aging space telescope from falling back to Earth was delayed Thursday after a launch issue scrubbed ...

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of low-Earth orbit.

‘A lot will have to go right’ if first-of-its-kind Swift observatory rescue mission is to succeed ...

NASA is preparing a robotic rescue mission to boost the falling Swift telescope, test satellite servicing, and avoid a costly ...

WALLOPS ISLAND, Va.—Just 10 months ago, NASA asked three companies if they could do something nobody had done before. Could they build and launch a satellite to save a $500 million astronomy mission ...

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies.

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.