NASA launches $30M robotic rescue mission to save aging Swift Observatory from reentry
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NASA is racing to save its aging Swift Observatory from falling back to Earth by launching a daring $30 million rescue mission. The agency has hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to send a three-armed robotic spacecraft to boost the telescope to a higher orbit, extending its life and allowing it to continue hunting for gamma-ray bursts and other cosmic explosions. The mission launches this week from the Marshall Islands aboard a Pegasus rocket.
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· 3 pulledNASA 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 planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once it takes off from an atoll in the Pacific's Marshall Islands aboard an airplane-launched Pegasus rocket.
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