'No One Thought It Was Going to Be possible.' A Space Telescope Is Falling Out of Space. This Is NASA's Daring Plan to Save It.

'No one thought it was going to be possible.' A space telescope is falling out of space. This is NASA's daring plan to save it.

NASA's Swift space observatory is falling out of orbit. A commercial company just built a spacecraft in 9 months to save it, but will the daring mission work?

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA plans a mission to rescue it

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to Earth. Here's how.

Swift reboost mission ready for launch

A high-risk mission to raise the orbit of a NASA astrophysics spacecraft is set to launch later this month after less than a year of development. The post Swift reboost mission ready for launch appeared first on SpaceNews.

NASA Swift Rescue Enters Launch Phase

Archyde NASA's Stargazer aircraft has left Wallops carrying Pegasus XL and Katalyst's LINK spacecraft for an urgent attempt to boost the sinking Swift Observatory. The post NASA’s Swift Rescue Enters Launch Phase as Stargazer Heads for Kwajalein appeared first on Archyde.

A commercial robot will try to catch NASA's sinking Swift telescope this month — a first for a satellite never built to be serviced

A robotic spacecraft built by a Flagstaff, Arizona, startup is preparing to chase down one of NASA’s space telescopes and boost it into a higher orbit. Katalyst Space Technologies’ craft, called LINK, is set to launch later this month aboard an air-launched Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, then rendezvous with NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and raise its altitude. The target is a telescope t…