{"id":1029969,"date":"2026-08-20T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029969"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:58:54","slug":"rescue-mission-for-aging-nasa-space-telescope-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/rescue-mission-for-aging-nasa-space-telescope-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue mission for aging NASA space telescope fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mission to rescue NASA&#8217;s aging Swift observatory in space was canceled on Wednesday after the spacecraft that was launched to tug the satellite to a higher orbit suffered irredeemable technical issues in space, the rescue craft&#8217;s owner, Katalyst Space, said. <\/p>\n<p>Katalyst&#8217;s LINK craft was launched in early July to approach the observatory, \u200calso known \u2060as \u2060Swift, some 216 miles (347 km) in space, grapple onto it and then tug it to a higher orbit of roughly 373 miles (600 km), extending its life by years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mission to rescue NASA&#8217;s aging Swift observatory in space was canceled on Wednesday after the spacecraft that was launched to tug the satellite to a higher orbit suffered irredeemable technical issues in space, the rescue craft&#8217;s owner, Katalyst Space, said. Katalyst&#8217;s LINK craft was launched in early July to approach the observatory, \u200calso known \u2060as \u2060Swift, some 216 miles (347 km) in space, grapple onto it and then tug it to a higher orbit of roughly 373 miles (600 km), extending its life by years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030003,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029969\/revisions\/1030003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}