Rescue mission for NASA’s $500 million space telescope passes key testing milestone – Spaceflight Now

Swift reboost mission completes environmental tests

A spacecraft designed to raise the decaying orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite has passed environmental tests ahead of a launch as soon as June.

Inside NASA’s audacious plan to save a doomed space telescope

NASA’s Swift space telescope is doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. A daring mission to boost it to safety could have big implications for science

Arianespace to launch Katalyst servicing spacecraft

Katalyst Space Technologies will launch a geosynchronous orbit servicing spacecraft on an Ariane 6 in 2027.