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NASA's Swift Observatory to burn up in atmosphere this week
Original: NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to burn up this week after more than two decades in space
NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a gamma-ray burst hunter launched in 2004, is expected to reenter Earth's atmosphere and burn up this week after more than two decades of operations. The spacecraft studied some of the most energetic explosions in the universe and far outlived its original mission lifetime. Its controlled or uncontrolled reentry details were not specified in the report.
Why now: The long-running space telescope's atmospheric reentry this week marks the end of a notable NASA astronomy mission.
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- NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to burn up this week after more than two decades in space · Spaceflight Now
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