{"id":41461,"date":"2025-09-24T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41461\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T22:17:08","slug":"to-save-aging-space-telescope-nasa-taps-startup-to-push-it-farther-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/41461\/","title":{"rendered":"To save aging space telescope, NASA taps startup to push it farther into space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) -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 into space, NASA and Katalyst said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The U.S. space agency awarded the 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<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA has tapped startup Katalyst to save a $500 million orbiting observatory from falling into Earth&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31209,61,60,31208,91,31210,31211,82,28600],"class_list":["post-41461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-earths-atmosphere-2","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katalyst","tag-nasa","tag-neil-gehrels-swift-observatory","tag-orbiting-observatory","tag-science","tag-spacecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}