Nasa’s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale
Headline from South China Morning Post · First reported Nov 4, 1:12 AM ET () · Updated Nov 4, 6:46 PM ET · 3 sources, 3 articles
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Nasa’s Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected on Wednesday and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency reported. The fiery demise of the Neil Gehrels Swift…
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Nasa’s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale
Nasa’s Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected on Wednesday and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency reported. The fiery demise of the Neil Gehrels Swift…
Nasa's Swift satellite telescope heads for fiery re-entry 22 years after launch
An aging Nasa satellite telescope that a robotic spacecraft was sent to retrieve on a failed rescue mission this summer was headed for a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it was launched into orbit. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory , weighing roughly 3,200…
