Inside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatory

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Swift observatory is poised for launch June 30.

A mission to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Tuesday, June 30, at 6:23 a.m. EDT (10:23 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein…

And the Hubble Space Telescope could be next

The Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been falling back to Earth due to recent higher-than-usual solar activity.

NASA is executing an unprecedented, first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a highly successful 21-year-old space telescope that is rapidly…