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Pegasus XL | Swift Boost Mission
Northrop Grumman Space Systems · Pegasus XL · Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit
Northrop Grumman Space Systems's 17th launch · 2nd this year · humanity's 7,331st orbital launch attempt
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Jul 3, 08:36 – Jul 3, 08:36 UTC
Flight preview
Swift Boost 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 Extension · Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Booster
No booster details available.
Watch
No webcast announced yet.
Flight timeline
- P0DLiftoff
- T+5SIgnition
- T+1M19SMECO
- T+1M35SSES
- T+2M17SFairing Separation
- T+2M50SSECO
- T+6M35SStage 3 Ignition
- T+7M44SStage 3 Cutoff
- T+12M44SPayload Separation
Updates
Launched and reached orbit.
hitura-nobad · 7/3/2026 · source
Rescheduled for July 3.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/3/2026 · source
Scrub due to launch vehicle issue.
Cosmic_Penguin · 7/2/2026 · source
Delayed again due to weather
Nosu · 7/1/2026 · source
Scrubbed due to weather
SwGustav · 6/30/2026 · source
Adjusted T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/30/2026 · source
Refined T-0.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/26/2026 · source
Delayed to NET June 30 per new marine navigation warnings.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/26/2026 · source
GO for launch.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/18/2026 · source
NET June 27 per NOTAMs, TBC.
Cosmic_Penguin · 6/16/2026 · source
News
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LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Observatory
A first-of-its-kind mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Thursday, July 2, 5:09 a.m. EDT (9:09 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. A robotic servicing spacecraft called LINK, built by Katalyst Space, will blast […]
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