When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Artist’s illustration of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory orbiting Earth. | Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image LabA bold telescope-rescue mission is set to launch later this month, and you can learn all about it today (June 17).That mission will be conducted by Link, a robotic servicing spacecraft built and operated by the Arizona-based company Katalyst Space Technologies. Link will meet up with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the final frontier, raising the telescope’s orbit to give it more time to study the heavens.AdvertisementAdvertisementNASA and Katalyst representatives will discuss the plan today, during a press conference that starts at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT). You can listen live via NASA. Space.com will stream the feed as well, if the space agency makes it available.Katalyst Space’s Link spacecraft is seen mated with its Pegasus XL rocket. | Credit: NASA/Ron BeardParticipants will be:Shawn Domagal-Goldman, division director, Astrophysics, NASA Headquarters in WashingtonKieran Wilson, principal investigator, LINK, Katalyst SpaceRobert Lamontagne, vice president, strategic partnerships, Katalyst SpaceWes Collier, vice president, launch systems, Northrop GrummanSwift launched to low Earth orbit in 2004 to hunt for gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe. The telescope is still perfectly capable of doing this important job, but …
