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A NASA space telescope is falling out of the sky, and to save it the agency skipped its own contractors and handed the job to a four-year-old startup that had never flow…

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...

NASA rushes to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with $30 million rescue mission

CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the ...

Recycling in Space? NASA Takes Cue From China Giving 20-Year-Old Swift Space Telescope a Second Chance

NASA launched a robotic mission to raise the aging Swift Observatory into a higher orbit, extending its scientific life and ...

NASA sends robot into orbit to stop telescope crashing to Earth

Swift has been circling Earth for 21 years. Without a rescue mission assembled in just nine months, it would burn up by ...

Last-minute launch problem delays satellite rescue mission for NASA

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.