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LINK, the robotic spacecraft from Katalyst Space designed to boost our Swift mission’s orbit, experienced issues with attitude control over the weekend, causing the spacecraft to spin and resulting in sporadic communications. The team is working to stop LINK’s spin over the next few days and then will update LINK’s guidance, navigation, and control to accommodate the spacecraft’s new configuration.
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What gives this cosmic lighthouse its checkmark shape? Our IXPE telescope studied the pulsar within the Lighthouse Nebula and its turbulent outflows, confirming a 2008 theory that its long, thin filament is shaped by the galaxy’s magnetic fields. More:
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