Spacecraft operators always work hard to fix such problems when they crop up, but there's a special urgency where LINK is concerned. Artist's illustration of Katalyst Space Technologies' Link servicing spacecraft approaching and capturing NASA's Swift space observatory on an orbit-boosting mission. (Image credit: Katalyst Space Technologies)Swift — officially known as the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts , the most energetic events in the universe. Last September, the agency awarded Katalyst $30 million to build LINK — a refrigerator-sized spacecraft with three robotic arms — and fly its rescue mission. The company has experience delivering under pressure, so maybe it can pull off the rescue craft's rescue before it's too late.