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Pegasus XL | Swift Boost Mission
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
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.
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Planned timings relative to the target. These steps do not indicate live progress.
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Liftoff
- T+00:00:05
Ignition
- T+00:01:19
MECO
- T+00:01:35
SES
- T+00:02:17
Fairing Separation
- T+00:02:50
SECO
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- T+00:06:35
Stage 3 Ignition
- T+00:07:44
Stage 3 Cutoff
- T+00:12:44
Payload Separation