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NASA abandons mission to save Swift Observatory from a fiery death

NASA engineers have confirmed they can’t spare the historic Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from a fiery demise, despite their best efforts.

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NASA mission to save its sinking space telescope fails soon after launch

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NASA reluctantly abandons a space telescope rescue mission

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Rescue mission is called off for NASA's aging Swift space telescope

The mission to save NASA’s sinking Swift Observatory was called off Wednesday, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.

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A NASA observatory will likely reenter Earth’s atmosphere this year after rescue effort falls short

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NASA, Katalyst call off SWIFT rescue mission over issues with rescue craft in space

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Rescue mission for aging NASA space telescope fails

Katalyst's LINK craft was launched in early July to approach the observatory, also known as Swift, some 216 miles (347 km) in space, grapple onto it and then tug it to a higher orbit of roughly 373 m...

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$30 million mission to save NASA's Swift telescope fails

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NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift Observatory after technical hiccups

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NASA pulls off daring trick to keep Voyager 2 alive

Somewhere more than 13 billion miles from Earth, a nearly 50-year-old spacecraft is still doing its job. Voyager 2 has been flying through space since 1977, survived four planetary encounters, crossed into interstellar space and continued sending scientific data back to Earth long after anyone could reasonably have expected it to.

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Who was Nancy Grace Roman—the ‘Mother of Hubble’ NASA’s brand new space telescope is named after?

It was Nancy Roman's efforts that brought the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope into existence.

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NASA's planned budget cuts could set back space science, but show how to future-proof the agency

The 2026 NASA budget proposal would slash around US$6 billion (£4.4 billion) in funding. This is a huge reduction, amounting to around 25% of recent NASA budgets. The savings would mainly come from NASA science programs, potentially devastating high ...