LINK Spacecraft ready for mission to power NASA’s Swift Observatory0

• SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX, Swift Boost Mission
• July 3, 2026

The first-of-its-kind mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is set to launch no earlier than Thursday, July 2 at 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 service spacecraft called LINK, built by Katalyst