NASA will soon attempt something it's never done before: Save a space telescope from falling back to Earth using a servicing robot.

Observatório Swift, em operação desde 2004, será alvo de uma tentativa de resgate robótico para elevar sua órbita e prolongar sua vida útil

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

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch…

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission

CABO CAÑAVERAL, Florida, EE.UU. (AP) — La NASA busca salvar un telescopio envejecido de observación espacial que está perdiendo altura con una audaz misión de rescate.

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

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“I have to be honest. No one thought it was going to be possible. No one thought we would get as far as we’ve already gotten today.”

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

US space agency NASA is racing to save an aging telescope, used to observe cosmic explosions, from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.

The daring rescue mission gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.

A salvage operation is set to launch as early as Tuesday to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit.

NASA is preparing to launch a daring mission to save a precious space telescope from plunging back to Earth.

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…

Inside the quest to rescue NASA’s aging Swift observatory

The NASA Swift telescope rescue sends a robotic spacecraft to grab the falling observatory and boost its orbit, a first-of-its-kind $30M mission.

La intensa actividad solar puso en riesgo al telescopio Swift, que podría caer de forma descontrolada. La NASA prepara una misión inédita para intentar salvarlo.

A rocket launching to space from an airplane is sort of like a hat on a hat, but you know what? The more hats, the better.

The agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is at risk of falling into the atmosphere. A spacecraft set to launch Tuesday is tasked with pushing the satellite back into a stable…