Swift Boost Mission

Swift Boost Mission launched on a Northrop Grumman Space Systems Pegasus XL from Kwajalein Atoll, Air launch to orbit on July 3, 2026 at 08:36 UTC. It was Northrop Grumman Space Systems's 17th launch, 2nd this year and humanity's 7,331st orbital launch attempt. It was the 32nd Pegasus XL flight and the 1st this year. The payload was bound for low Earth orbit (LEO). 2 objects from this launch are catalogued, one of them a payload.

2 catalogued: 1 payload, 1 rocket stage; 1 still in orbit

• LINK · NORAD 69792 · re-entered September 25, 2026

Pegasus F46 Stage 3 · in orbit

Data from J. McDowell, planet4589.org

• NASA · Sep 28NASA Highlights Lessons Learned From Swift Boost MissionA commercial mission to boost NASA’s Swift observatory concluded without raising the spacecraft’s orbit, but the agency and industry vendor gained valuable experience that will benefit future in-space servicing programs.
• SpacePolicyOnline.com · Sep 24Swift Rescue Mission May Not Have Succeeded, But No RegretsThe bold mission to extend the lifetime of NASA’s Swift observatory is coming to an end in the next 24 hours. Almost exactly one year after NASA signed a contract […]
• SpacePolicyOnline.com · Aug 19No-Go for Katalyst’s Reboost of NASA’s Swift ObservatoryKatalyst Space and NASA concluded today that reboosting the Swift Observatory with Katalyst’s LINK spacecraft will not be possible due to attitude control problems.  They still plan to conduct some […]
• SpaceNews · Aug 19Katalyst Space and NASA abandon plans for Swift reboostKatalyst Space and NASA have called off plans to use the company’s Link spacecraft to raise the orbit of the agency’s Swift gamma-ray observatory, citing attitude-control problems with the spacecraft.
• NASA · Aug 19NASA Updates Next Steps for Commercial Swift Boost MissionDue to an ongoing commercial spacecraft attitude control issue, NASA and Katalyst Space announced Wednesday the LINK spacecraft will not capture or boost an agency satellite to a higher altitude to extend its science mission as planned. However, LINK still will attempt to conduct rendezvous and proximity operations with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to […]
• SpaceNews · Aug 10Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraftThe company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft’s problems.
• SpacePolicyOnline.com · Jul 29Swift Reboost Mission Encounters SetbackKatalyst Space’s efforts to reboost NASA’s Swift observatory has encountered a setback. The LINK on-orbit servicing spacecraft is in a multi-axis spin. LINK must attach itself to Swift and raise […]
• SpaceNews · Jul 28Swift reboost mission encounters attitude control problemsA spacecraft launched nearly a month ago in a high-risk bid to boost the orbit of a NASA astrophysics satellite is suffering attitude control problems that could jeopardize its mission.

• Previous Pegasus XL flightOdyssey (TacRL-2)Jun 13, 2021
• Previous launch from this padNuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)Jun 13, 2012
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