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NASA’s Swift space telescope is falling back to Earth after a $30 million rescue mission failed
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is preparing to fall back through Earth’s atmosphere after a private mission designed to save the spacecraft failed. The telescope, launched in 2004, spent more than 20 years tracking some of the universe’s most powerful explosions before reaching the end of its orbital life.

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NASA's Swift telescope will plunge toward Earth after rescue mission called off

The mission to save NASA's sinking space telescope has been called off, dooming the telescope to a fiery reentry later this year.

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

A satellite launched to rescue NASA’s falling Swift Observatory won’t be able to complete its mission after all.

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. In July, mission specialists partnering with Katalyst Space Technologies launched the Link spacecraft with the hopes of capturing the orbital telescope and boosting it into a higher orbit.

NASA's mission to save Swift Observatory fails. Here's what went wrong

NASA took a big risk when it mounted a rescue mission to boost its aging Swift Observatory further into orbit. Here's why it didn't succeed.

NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

The Swift rescue mission was always risky. NASA awarded Katalyst a $30 million contract less than a year ago to build and launch the Link satellite. NASA said Katalyst had to launch the rescue mission by this summer in order to reach Swift before it falls back into Earth’s atmosphere and burns up.