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From Space.com

NASA's bold mission to boost Swift space telescope

By Mike Wall
June 17, 2026

A bold telescope-rescue mission is set to launch later this
month. 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.

Swift 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 Earth's atmosphere is dragging it down toward a fiery death.

Swift doesn't have a propulsion system to fight this downward
pull, so it needs some help — which is where Katalyst comes in.
Last fall, NASA announced it had tapped the company to raise
Swift's orbit.

It's an unprecedented ask: No private spacecraft has ever linked
up with a robotic U.S. government satellite. And time is of the
essence; some models predicted the observatory could come back to
Earth as soon as this summer.

Katalyst has acted fast, getting Link ready for a launch later
this month from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific. (NASA has
not yet announced a target date). Link will fly aboard a Northrop
Grumman Pegasus XL rocket, an air-launched vehicle that will be
carried aloft by a plane.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/missions/nasa-discussing-bold-mission-to-boost-swift-space-telescope-today-listen-live


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From Bloomberg via gCaptain:

Barnacle Boom: Divers Race to Clean Ships Stranded in Persian
Gulf

By Stella Mackler
June 17, 2026

Demand for ocean divers who specialize in barnacle scraping is
soaring as ships stranded in the Persian Gulf for more than three
months prepare to disembark.

The surge in orders for crews to clean ship hulls fouled by
algae, slime and crustaceans has jumped more than 30-fold since
US President Donald Trump announced an interim peace deal with
Iran that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz, said Captain
Manandeep Singh Kukreja, chief surveyor at Dubai-based Prominence
Shipping Services LLC.

The rush has the potential to push the fees commanded by scraping
crews for underwater work on a single vessel up as much as 60% to
$8,000, he said during an interview. Just days ago, when Trump
announced the agreement, crews were fetching $5,000 for such
work.

“The next 30 days, it’s going to be for a diving company like
they’ve struck gold,” Kukreja said. “Everyone wants to get out of
Hormuz finally. Everyone wants to get back to earning money.”

Scrubbing barnacles from hulls is but one example of the
challenges and costs big and small ships face as they wait for
the US and Iran to finalize the peace deal so they can sail
through the Strait of Hormuz. After months of war, they’ll need
to make sure their insurance is in order, sort out who will
oversee safe passage and take whatever measures are possible to
avoid potential mines.

About 600 vessels remain trapped in the Persian Gulf, as the
largest-ever disruption to global energy market drags toward its
16th week.

Barnacles are the cousins of hard-shelled creatures like lobsters
and crabs that attach themselves to ship bottoms with a self-made
adhesive so hard that it’s been studied by scientists for
potential use in dentistry. Most ports of call forbid
barnacle-studded vessels from entry because of the threat of
destructive, invasive species nestled inbetween the tightly
packed barnacles.

Hence the sudden rise in demand for scraping crews to tend to
scores of vessels that have been idling in the bathwater-warm
shallows of the Persian Gulf since the war erupted in late
February.

“They’re going to make the best out of this opportunity,” Kukreja
said of the divers. “It’s a no-brainer that they will hike their
prices.”

To be sure, the hull-cleaning process is highly specific to each
ship and the degree of marine life buildup. Raghu Sharma, a
navigation officer and master mariner who has worked on oil
tankers in the Persian Gulf, said that some vessels may only have
accumulated slime, while others may be thoroughly encrusted,
which requires more intense cleaning techniques.

https://gcaptain.com/barnacle-boom-divers-race-to-clean-ships-stranded-in-persian-gulf/
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This week's images ...
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Architectural detail from the Madam CJ Walker building in
Indianapolis. This cosmetics entrepreneur was America’s first
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Dataland, billed as the world's first museum of AI arts, in Los
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A hare silhouetted at sunset on the island of Tiree, Scotland.
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The Washington Monument with distant storm clouds the evening of
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A rainbow at National Park in Washington DC, June 12.
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Everlasting Peaflowers in Downtown Flagstaff, Arizona, June 17.
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Golden Columbine flower at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Arizona,
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Pansy flower at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Arizona, June 14.
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California Poppy flowers at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Arizona,
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Bellflowers at The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Arizona, June 15.
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Our art of the week is "Untitled 168, Sunflowers" (2010), an iPad
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