Tag: NASA
Katalyst probe meets Swift up close as its rescue mission winds down
Katalyst's Link craft closed to within 12 to 15 kilometers of NASA's Swift telescope before its rescue mission wound down.
A West Point for space moves closer under new Trump order
Trump signed an order creating a commission to design a federal academy for the Space Force.
Chinese hackers lose cloaking network in FBI seizure
The FBI seized the infrastructure of Chinese state hackers who targeted NASA, the Senate and other US agencies.
Flaws in NASA command console let anyone fire spacecraft commands
Critical flaws in NASA/JPL's AIT-GUI console allowed unauthenticated users to send commands to spacecraft.
Katalyst scraps Swift reboost, settles for a close flyby instead
Katalyst's Link spacecraft will skip its planned grapple-and-boost of NASA's Swift telescope after attitude-control trouble.
Katalyst tames a spinning spacecraft to keep Swift rescue on track
Katalyst Space slowed a spinning servicing spacecraft and now plans a software fix that could still save NASA's Swift telescope.