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NASA ends Swift space telescope mission after failed rescue attempt - Space
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Swift made its final observation on October 20 and is expected to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere within weeks.
Bradley Cenko, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Rescue Attempt Fell Short in August NASA hired Katalyst Space Technologies to grab Swift with a robotic spacecraft and lift it to a higher orbit, but the rescue was called off in August after the LINK vehicle ran into control problems.
"In that time, Swift played a major role in advancing our understanding of the changing universe and was part of a revolution in astrophysics that showed how critical rapid-response observations are to the entire community," Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headqu
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