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Brett Tingley

Satellite-boosting spacecraft inside air-launched rocket | Space photo of the day for June 12, 2026

Katalyst Space's LINK robotic servicing satellite awaits encapsulation inside a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL on June 8, 2026, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (Image credit: NASA/Ron Beard)

NASA is fast-tracking a mission to launch a spacecraft that will attempt to boost another one of the agency's science satellites into a higher orbit before it falls to a fiery death in Earth's atmosphere. The spacecraft was recently prepped for encapsulation inside its rocket at one of NASA's launch facilities.

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