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NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up
NYT Science Monday 29 June 2026, 17:00 UTC By Kenneth Chang 1 min read
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An artist’s concept of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory being ferried to a higher orbit over Earth by the start-up Katalyst Space Technologies’s Link spacecraft.

An artist’s concept of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory being ferried to a higher orbit over Earth by the start-up Katalyst Space Technologies’s Link spacecraft.
NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope (ORG) Earth (LOCATION) Katalyst Space Technologies’s (ORG)
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