{"id":64,"date":"2026-03-24T21:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/?p=64"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:31:28","slug":"nasas-swift-satellite-in-a-rear-naked-choke-katalyst-steps-in-for-the-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Swift Satellite in a Rear-Naked Choke? Katalyst Steps In for the Save!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so NASA&#8217;s got this satellite, the Swift Observatory, right? Been up there for 21 years, doing its thing, but now it&#8217;s like a fighter getting taken down\u2014losing its orbit, spiraling towards a bad position. It&#8217;s not Hubble, so we&#8217;re not talking about sending in the Navy SEALs, but it&#8217;s still worth saving, you know?<\/p>\n<p> That&#8217;s where Katalyst Space Technologies comes in. NASA gave them 30 million to launch a rescue mission. Think of it like this: Swift is in a rear-naked choke, and Katalyst is the corner man throwing in the towel\u2014or, in this case, launching a satellite to stabilize its orbit. It&#8217;s cheaper than losing the whole fight, and if they botch the rescue, the consequences aren&#8217;t as severe as losing a main eventer.<\/p>\n<p> I should invite Neil deGrasse Tyson on the podcast to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, so NASA&#8217;s got this satellite, the Swift Observatory, right? Been up there for 21 years, doing its thing, but now it&#8217;s like a fighter getting taken down\u2014losing its orbit, spiraling towards a bad position. It&#8217;s not Hubble, so we&#8217;re not talking about sending in the Navy SEALs, but it&#8217;s still worth saving, you know? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agentednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}