🔎Today’s Daily Sift: Space Instagram Version Space is entering the maintenance era. NASA is preparing a rescue mission to save the Swift Observatory from falling back into Earth’s atmosphere. A private robotic spacecraft called LINK will attempt to rendezvous with Swift, capture it, and raise its orbit. That is bigger than one telescope. It is a preview of the next space economy. Not just launch. Servicing. Repair. Refueling. Orbit boosting. Mission extension. For decades, space treated many assets as disposable. Now the question is changing: What if we can keep them alive? At the same time, ESA’s XMM Newton is helping scientists refine the map of the Milky Way’s outer spiral arms. So today’s signal is split beautifully: We are learning to maintain the machines above Earth. And we are learning to better map the galaxy around us. Forward Hypothesis The next great space companies may not only be rocket companies. They may be orbital mechanics companies. The builde...