The proximity of Teruel to PLD Space's Elche headquarters ensures swift coordination between teams, cutting component validation intervals to one day.
Katalyst selected Pegasus for its ability to accommodate Swift's low inclination of 21°.
Katalyst's Link robotic servicer will rendezvous with NASA's Swift Observatory after launch.
The launch of the Swift Rescue Mission is scheduled for June 2026.
Katalyst's Link robotic servicer will raise NASA's Swift Observatory to a higher orbit.
Swift's Skylark service delivers multi-constellation, multi-frequency corrections with coverage across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Ultraviolet monitoring of supernova SN 2024bch was performed by the Swift satellite.
Simon Swift is the engineering director of ETL Systems.
The orbital boost for Swift is planned for spring 2026, contingent upon solar activity monitoring.
The low Earth orbit of the Swift spacecraft is gradually decaying due to increased atmospheric drag caused by recent solar activity.
The Swift spacecraft was launched by NASA in 2004 to explore the universe's most powerful explosions known as gamma-ray bursts.
Katalyst's robotic maintenance spacecraft will reach NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise its altitude.
NASA could have allowed the Swift observatory to re-enter Earth's atmosphere but opted to advance spacecraft maintenance technology.
A successful orbital advancement of Swift would mark the first instance of a commercial robotic spacecraft capturing a government satellite not initially designed for in-space maintenance.
Swift's vantage point above Earth's atmosphere enabled ultraviolet measurements that ground telescopes cannot make.
A constellation of spacecraft called the Space Weather Investigation Frontier, or SWIFT, aims to provide a multiprobe view of solar tornadoes.
NASA engineers designed an aluminum sail for the hub spacecraft in SWIFT that can enable the probe to park beyond L1 without burning fuel.
The SWIFT configuration would allow researchers to observe how solar wind changes before reaching Earth, improving space weather warnings by 40%.
In the SWIFT proposal, four probes will be stationed in a triangular-pyramid formation about 200,000 miles apart.
NASA awarded a $30 million contract to Katalyst Space Technologies to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.