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NASA's Swift Observatory Nears the End of Its Mission
Original: NASA's Swift Observatory Is About to Die. It's Not the First Time NASA Has Said Goodbye to a Robot.
NASA's Swift Observatory, which has studied gamma-ray bursts and other cosmic events since its launch in 2004, is approaching the end of its operational life. National Geographic reports the spacecraft's decline as the latest in a series of farewells to long-serving NASA robotic missions, prompting reflection on the observatory's two decades of astronomical discoveries.
Why now: Reports that a beloved, long-running space telescope is about to shut down are drawing attention from space enthusiasts and scientists.
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- NASA's Swift Observatory Is About to Die. It's Not the First Time NASA Has Said Goodbye to a Robot. · National Geographic
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