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Posted on 06/28/2026 7:20:59 AM PDT by devane617
NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.
The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.
NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe’s biggest explosions. A three-armed spacecraft built by Katalyst will chase after Swift once it takes off from an atoll in the Pacific’s Marshall Islands aboard an airplane-launched Pegasus rocket. Liftoff could occur as early as Tuesday.
Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity. It needs to get to a higher, more stable orbit as soon as possible to survive.
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“Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity.”
This is clearly the fault of people driving SUVs and not separating their recycling. The only viable solution is to elect leftists and to increase taxes.
That line really caught my eye. But I’m too lazy to read the whole thing.
Are we talking about the singer, or about something else?
or the people on the Sun driving Super SUVs ,LOL
Hell, I thought she made that much from just one concert.
A startup using a Pegasus rocket ,Hmmm
This calls for a swift response.
“recent intense solar activity” ping
I would think the telescope is obsolete for looking into space.
Does it look at China or the mullah’s house in Iran?
With a Taylored solution.
Yep, probably.
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