NASA's Swift rescue slips to late August as LINK battles its spin

https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/07/31/nasas-swift-rescue-slips-to-late-august-as-link-battles-its-spin/5281687

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burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 25d

The actual update link:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/katalyst-space_over-the-last-48-hours-the-katalyst-team-activity-7488722727298818048-mApL

(I hate when this stuff is only on shitter and linkedIn and not their press release page)

reduced LINK’s spin rate from approximately 9 degrees per second to approximately 4 degrees per second

That's a lot less bad than I expected. Great progress. The hall thruster being on a gimbal must be a huge help. I'll still be stunned if this isn't a loss of mission, but this is impressive work so far.