After more than 20 years in orbit, NASA’s Swift space telescope is running out of altitude. To keep the observatory alive, the agency is preparing an ambitious rescue mission that would send a newly ...

A Nasa-funded robot has blasted off to catch a falling telescope in mid-orbit and blast it back to safety before it burns up.

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The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.

NASA has a daring rescue mission in the works to save its Swift space telescope from falling out of space. But it has to happen fast.

NASA's Swift Observatory is in peril. A last minute mission to save it could make spaceflight history. Here's everything to know.

NASA launched a robotic mission to raise the aging Swift Observatory into a higher orbit, extending its scientific life and ...

‘A lot will have to go right’ if first-of-its-kind Swift observatory rescue mission is to succeed ...

A refrigerator-size spacecraft will try to grab onto Swift and nudge it to a higher orbit, enabling it to continue observing powerful cosmic explosions.

The Swift observatory has been in orbit for 22 years but it's on track to fall from the skies.

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