Engineers race to save stricken LINK rescue spacecraft before it's too late. The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs saving, too —and teams are making progress on that front.
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Trechos de apoio da pauta: A private rescue spacecraft is having troubles of its own in Earth orbit.LINK, a satellite built and operated by the Arizona company Katalyst Space Technologies, launched July 3 on a daring and unprecedented mission: Rendezvous with NASA's Swift space telescope and boost the observatory to a higher orbit before it falls out of the sky.About three weeks after launch, however, LINK started spinning at an unexpected rate, a problem that caused a temporary communications dropout and a reset of its satellite platform. And two of LINK's three orientation-controlling reaction wheels stopped working.Spacecraft operators always work hard to fix such problems when they crop up, but there's a special urgency where LINK is concerned.
- Ponto de atenção: engineers.
- Ponto de atenção: race.
- Ponto de atenção: save.
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