{"id":242467,"date":"2026-08-10T05:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/katalyst-space-makes-progress-in-restoring-control-of-swift-servicing-spacecraft"},"modified":"2026-08-10T05:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:04:55","slug":"katalyst-space-makes-progress-in-restoring-control-of-swift-servicing-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/katalyst-space-makes-progress-in-restoring-control-of-swift-servicing-spacecraft","title":{"rendered":"Katalyst Space makes progress in restoring control of Swift servicing spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/katalyst-space-makes-progress-in-restoring-control-of-swift-servicing-spacecraft.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/katalyst-space_the-katalyst-team-is-continuing-recovery-activity-7490896940390338561-8joM?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAGFg8B3-sICy8qygPooiy3lldZb4nJqmI\">a social media post<\/a> last week, Katalyst Space Technologies said it had slowed the spin of its Link spacecraft, which had entered <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/swift-reboost-mission-encounters-attitude-control-problems\/\">what the company said on July 28 was a \u201cmulti-axis spin\u201d<\/a> because of technical issues encountered during post-launch commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLINK was spinning at approximately 9 degrees per second when recovery operations began,\u201d the company stated. \u201cThe team has since reduced the spacecraft\u2019s body rate to 1.47 degrees per second, where it will remain while the team prepares for the next phase of the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The company that developed a spacecraft to boost the orbit of a NASA observatory says it is making progress in recovering from its own spacecraft\u2019s problems. In a social media post last week, Katalyst Space Technologies said it had slowed the spin of its Link spacecraft, which had entered what the company said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}