{"id":2446,"date":"2026-08-03T03:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:27:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:27:23","slug":"attitude-control-issues-leave-swift-rescue-mission-spinning-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Attitude control issues leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA&#8217;s Swift gamma-ray telescope from a fiery reentry is having problems of its own, the agency announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Link satellite developed by Katalyst Space Technologies &#8220;experienced issues with attitude control&#8221; over the weekend, NASA said, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link&#8217;s three reaction wheels currently are not operable, and there is some loss of functionality in its cold gas thruster system,&#8221; NASA said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/reaction-wheel-failures-leave-swift-rescue-mission-spinning-in-orbit\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/reaction-wheel-failures-leave-swift-rescue-mission-spinning-in-orbit\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/reaction-wheel-failures-leave-swift-rescue-mission-spinning-in-orbit\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly a month since its launch, a first-of-its-kind commercial satellite built to save NASA&#8217;s Swift gamma-ray telescope from a fiery reentry is having problems of its own, the agency announced Tuesday. The Link satellite developed by Katalyst Space Technologies &#8220;experienced issues with attitude control&#8221; over the weekend, NASA said, causing the spacecraft to spin and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}