Katalyst LINK Suffers Attitude-Control Issue

Swift in orbit

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...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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