Wenn hochkomplexe Technik im Weltraum an ihre Grenzen stößt, sind unkonventionelle Lösungen gefragt. Ein aktuelles Projekt zeigt nun eindrucksvoll, wie aus der Not heraus völlig neue Ansätze für den Erhalt teurer Infrastruktur entstehen können. Die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa geht gegenwärtig höchst ungewöhnliche Wege, um das bewährte Gammastrahlen-Observatorium Swift vor einem unkontrollierten und baldigen Absturz zu bewahren. […]

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

And the Hubble Space Telescope could be next

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…

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.

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…

NASA plans a bold robot mission to rescue the Swift telescope from imminent destruction in Earth's atmosphere.

Instead of letting a 22-year-old space telescope fall to Earth, NASA wants to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory with a robotic spacecraft designed to boost the telescope…

Wenn hochkomplexe Technik im Weltraum an ihre Grenzen stößt, sind unkonventionelle Lösungen gefragt. Ein aktuelles Projekt zeigt nun eindrucksvoll, wie aus der Not heraus völlig…

Если миссия провалится, уникальный телескоп просто развалится и сгорит в атмосфере

The spacecraft will gradually catch up with the Swift telescope before using its robotic arms to latch onto the observatory and gently raise it into a higher orbit, potentially…

Das Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory sinkt zu schnell ab und würde bald abstürzen. Ein Raumschiff soll es deshalb wieder anheben und wurde jetzt gestartet.

La empresa Katalyst ha diseñado y lanzado, en solo nueve meses, un robot que deberá atrapar el observatorio espacial ‘Swift’ y subirlo a una órbita más alta antes de que la…

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.

Swift has been circling Earth for 21 years. Without a rescue mission assembled in just nine months, it would burn up by October.

NASA has launched a never-before-attempted mission to stop its Swift telescope from crashing back down to Earth - using a flying robot the size of a fridge