Katalyst Space Technologies is a space engineering and research & development company specializing in on-orbit servicing and space domain awareness (SDA). They focus on developing modular spacecraft designs and hardware to enable in-space upgrades, satellite life extension, and enhance the flexibility and responsiveness of space missions. Katalyst partners with organizations like the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), U.S. Space Force, Intelsat, and NASA, and their work includes developing retrofit attachment systems, SDA sensors, and AI-driven data analytics for strategic space assets. Associated keywords include in-space servicing, space domain awareness, satellite upgrades, modular spacecraft, and rendezvous and proximity operations.
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Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK servicer was Pegasus’s final payload.
Pegasus’s final payload was Katalyst Space Technologies’ LINK servicer.
Katalyst Space Technologies built the LINK servicer in under nine months on a roughly $30 million NASA contract.
Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket was carrying LINK, Katalyst Space’s robotic servicing spacecraft for the Swift observatory.
Katalyst Space Technologies engineered the rescue payload under a compressed $30 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase III contract.
Katalyst Space designed, built, and tested LINK in just eight months.
NASA awarded Katalyst Space the contract in September 2025 to design, build, test, and launch a spacecraft capable of meeting, grabbing, and lifting Swift.
Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket was scheduled to carry LINK, Katalyst Space’s robotic servicing spacecraft for NASA’s Swift observatory.
Katalyst Space LINK is ready to launch no earlier than June 30 on a mission to capture and raise NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
The carrier aircraft will carry a three-stage solid-fuel Pegasus XL rocket containing Katalyst Space Technologies’ 425-kilogram LINK robotic servicing vehicle.
Katalyst Space LINK completed integration with Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket at NASA Wallops Flight Facility’s Horizontal Integration Facility in Virginia on June 15.
Katalyst Space Technologies procured a surplus Pegasus rocket from Northrop Grumman for the $30 million mission budget.
NASA awarded Katalyst Space a $30 million contract through the Small Business Innovation Research program to develop the Swift reboost mission.
NASA awarded Katalyst Space Technologies an expedited $30 million firm-fixed-price contract in September 2025 to develop and manufacture the servicing payload.
Katalyst Space Technologies developed Link, a 425-kilogram spacecraft designed to attach to a NASA spacecraft in decaying orbit and raise it to a higher altitude.
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies are scheduled to launch an orbital servicing mission for the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory on June 30, 2026.
Katalyst Space's LINK robotic servicing satellite is launching no earlier than June 30 from Kwajalein Atoll.
Katalyst Space’s LINK spacecraft will attempt to rendezvous with Swift and boost it to a higher orbit in June.
Katalyst Space built and tested LINK in about eight months after receiving the contract in September 2025.
Katalyst Space will allocate part of the new capital to its first GEO mission in 2027.