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NASA launches high-stakes mission to save ageing telescope Swift from falling to Earth

28/06/2026
The mission will be carried out by US startup Katalyst Space Technologies, which won the Nasa contract last September. Its three-armed robotic spacecraft, named Lift, will launch aboard an air-launched Pegasus rocket from the Marshall Islands before spending about a month chasing down Swift in orbit. Swift has been observing the universe since 2004.

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