Swift Boost Mission
This mission is complete.
The mission
Contracted by NASA under the Small Business Innovation Research Phase 3 contract, Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK servicing spacecraft will rendezvous and attach to NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to re-boost its orbit. This aims to demonstrate a key capability for the future of space exploration and extending the Swift mission’s science lifetime in gamma ray astronomy.
Mission timeline
Where it leaves Earth
Launch site
Ground vector
Kwajalein Atoll
Air launch to orbit
- Latitude
- 8.717°N
- Longitude
- 167.733°E
Can I see this?
Distance and a plain visibility call from a place you choose. Trajectory is not modeled — night launches travel farther across the sky than daylight ones.
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Range weather
Launch commit criteria
Clear — tracking no weather issues at this time.
- Primary concern
- No weather issues
- Rule count
- 0
- Temperature
- Not reported
- Surface wind
- Not reported
08:36 AM UTC – 08:36 AM UTC
Vehicle & provider
Schedule history
No meaningful launch-time or status changes recorded.