S4 · 08/19
2026 ·
Katalyst Space Technologies · Earth orbit
| Company | Katalyst Space Technologies |
| Category | defense space |
| Type | mission-loss |
| Date | 08/19 2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Earth orbit |
| Severity | S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | 1 spacecraft (Link) |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Bloomberg |
NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies formally called off the Link spacecraft's mission to rescue NASA's Swift Observatory after the spacecraft lost attitude control (two of three reaction wheels failed, plus thruster problems), a failure the company traces to the electrical power system. This is a formal termination announcement building on the already-known reaction-wheel/tumbling failure; flagged as new because it marks the mission's confirmed end, not merely the earlier malfunction report.