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Pegasus XL | Swift Boost Mission
Northrop Grumman Space SystemsKwajalein Atoll — Air launch to orbit
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Swift Boost Mission
- Type
- Mission Extension
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
- Last updated
vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Pegasus XL
- Family
- Pegasus
- Provider
- Northrop Grumman Space Systems
- Type
- Commercial
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Kwajalein Atoll
- Location
- Air launch to orbit
- Country
- ???
- Coordinates
- 8.7167, 167.7333
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