# Link spacecraft

Type: Product

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## Timeline

- **2026-06**: Mission assembly complete — Katalyst’s Link spacecraft is built and ready for launch, marking 10 months from contract award.
- **2025-09**: Katalyst wins $30M contract — NASA awards Katalyst Space Technologies a $30 million contract to build and launch the Link servicing spacecraft.
- **2025-08**: NASA solicits rescue proposals — NASA asks three companies for concepts to save Swift, requiring a mission ready in under a year.
- **2004-11**: Swift Observatory launched — NASA’s Swift gamma-ray burst mission launched into a 585 km orbit, designed without thrusters.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### $30M Rescue Aims to Save NASA’s $500M Swift Telescope from Orbital Decay
2026-06-19 02:27:03 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

NASA has contracted startup Katalyst Space Technologies to save the $500 million Swift Observatory from burning up in Earth’s atmosphere. The $30 million mission, developed in just 10 months, involves an autonomous spacecraft with robotic arms that will dock with Swift and boost its orbit—a first for a science satellite in low-Earth orbit.
Full story: https://getspacebrief.com/story/nasa-swift-rescue-katalyst-link

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