The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

News - 2025

NASA Awards Company to Attempt Swift Spacecraft Orbit Boost

Sep 24, 2025

Driving rapid innovation in the American space industry, NASA has awarded Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona, a contract to raise a spacecraft's orbit. Katalyst's robotic servicing spacecraft will rendezvous with NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise it to a higher altitude, demonstrating a key capability for the future of space exploration and extending the Swift mission's science lifetime.
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NASA Explores Industry Possibilities to Raise Swift Mission's Orbit

Aug 11, 2025

To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to demonstrate technology to raise a spacecraft's orbit to a higher altitude. Two American companies - Cambrian Works of Reston, Virginia, and Katalyst Space Technologies of Flagstaff, Arizona - will develop concept design studies for a possible orbit boost for the agency's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
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