There's an urgent mission to save NASA's Swift Observatory, which is falling back into the Earth's atmosphere and at risk of burning up. Mark Strassmann reports on the rescue operation.

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A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA’s Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray ...

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that's in danger of crashing back to Earth ...

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

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions.

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