An airplane carrying a rocket loaded with a robotic spacecraft designed to raise NASA’s Swift departed the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday.
Aircraft Carrying Swift Boost Satellite Takes off From NASA Wallops
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NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a satellite that studies gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, and other cosmic objects and events.
An airplane carrying a rocket loaded with a robotic spacecraft designed to raise NASA’s Swift departed the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Thursday.
Engineers attached a Northrop Grumman’s Pegasus XL rocket to the company’s Stargazer aircraft at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday, June 12.
Engineers completed installation of Katalyst's LINK into a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket on June 9 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility.
The LINK spacecraft designed to capture and boost NASA’s Swift observatory arrived at the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday, June 5.
