Swift Rescue Mission May Not Have Succeeded, But No Regrets
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NASA's mission to extend the life of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, using Katalyst Space Technologies' LINK servicing spacecraft launched via Pegasus XL, is ending without full success roughly a year after the contract was signed. The Swift Boost Mission had aimed to rendezvous with and re-boost Swift's orbit to extend its gamma ray astronomy science lifetime.
The bold mission to extend the lifetime of NASA’s Swift observatory is coming to an end in the next 24 hours. Almost exactly one year after NASA signed a contract […]
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