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“A NASA telescope will likely plummet to Earth on Friday”
NASA Swift telescope will burn up on atmospheric reentry Friday.
Key points
- The Neil Gehreis Swift Observatory is returning to Earth and is expected to burn up.
- U.S. Space Force estimates the 2,500-pound telescope will reenter on or around Friday, November 6.
- Launched in 2004, Swift operated nearly 22 years studying gamma-ray bursts and supernovae.
- Swift contributed to over 7,000 published papers and observed more than 2,000 GRBs.
- A prior attempt to boost Swift into higher orbit via a robotic satellite failed.
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