World’s First Rescue of a Falling Space Telescope Fails, Swift to Crash and Burn by the End of 2026

The saga of a piece of space hardware called the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory will not continue past the end of this year. Having already exceeded its expected operational life many times over, the space telescope became not long ago the target of a daring, world-first rescue mission that sadly failed earlier this week. The instrument, initially called the ( continue reading... )