{"id":35831,"date":"2025-09-24T20:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35831\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:59:08","slug":"to-save-aging-space-telescope-nasa-taps-startup-to-push-it-farther-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/35831\/","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":35832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[29577,85,46,29576,3442,29578,29579,141,24341],"class_list":["post-35831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-earths-atmosphere-2","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-katalyst","tag-nasa","tag-neil-gehrels-swift-observatory","tag-orbiting-observatory","tag-science","tag-spacecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}