{"id":964453,"date":"2025-09-26T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964453"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:36:01","slug":"nasa-taps-startup-to-save-aging-space-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/nasa-taps-startup-to-save-aging-space-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA taps startup to save aging space observatory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a short-notice mission that will demonstrate space-docking technology at the centre of the US-China space rivalry. <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. space agency said on Wednesday it awarded Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies $30 million to send a modified version of its &#8220;Link&#8221; spacecraft to NASA&#8217;s orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a spacecraft in low-Earth orbit that has been observing distant galaxies and black holes since its launch in 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth&#8217;s atmosphere by launching a spacecraft meant to push it farther in space, a short-notice mission that will demonstrate space-docking technology at the centre of the US-China space rivalry. The U.S. space agency said on Wednesday it awarded Arizona-based Katalyst Space Technologies $30 million to send a modified version of its &#8220;Link&#8221; spacecraft to NASA&#8217;s orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a spacecraft in low-Earth orbit that has been observing distant galaxies and black holes since its launch in 2004.<\/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-964453","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\/964453","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=964453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}