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A NASA space telescope is falling out of the sky, and to save it the agency skipped its own contractors and handed the job to a four-year-old startup that had never flow…

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...
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NASA discussing bold mission to boost Swift space telescope today: Listen live

NASA will discuss an ambitious mission to boost the orbit of its Swift space telescope during a press conference today (June 17), and you can listen to it live.

NASA's Hubble telescope spots cosmic nursery creating new generations of stars

NASA's Hubble captured an image of LH 95, a stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud filled with young stars and glowing ...

NASA's Webb Telescope Captures Rare Views Of Galaxy Shaped By Cosmic Collision

Earlier visible-light observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could not show the galaxy's central region because dust ...
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New NASA space telescope images reveal the universe in stunning red, white and blue for America 250

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has released four stunning images of cosmic wonders, depicted in red, white and blue for the ...
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NASA Launches High-Risk Mission To Rescue Swift Space Telescope Before It Falls Back To Earth

Reported by: Jenipher Camino Gonzalez with AP, AFP | Edited by: Sean Sinico A recovery mission to rescue NASA's telescope ...

NASA aims to save a sinking space telescope with a rendezvous in orbit

NASA on Tuesday plans to launch a mission to save its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. A spacecraft is expected to push the ...

NASA prepares to launch daring rescue to save aging telescope from falling to Earth

The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
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Audacious mission to rescue NASA's falling telescope has launched

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman telescope arrives at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has arrived at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a late summer launch. See the ...

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

Inside NASA’s daring race to save a doomed space telescope

NASA's Swift Observatory is in peril. A last minute mission to save it could make spaceflight history. Here's everything to ...