A software glitch on a rocket-launching plane delayed NASA's $30 million mission to save the Swift Observatory, crucial for cosmic observations since 2004.

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…

Operation set to last several months, kicking off with launch of a robot designed to rescue Swift space telescope that’s currently falling towards Earth.

A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.

A new launch date hasn’t been set for the rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004, has been slowly losing altitude because of increased solar activity.

NASA’s never-before-attempted plan to move a sensitive scientific satellite into a safer orbit has faced a week of delays—but it’s still go for launch.

A software glitch on a rocket-launching plane delayed NASA's $30 million mission to save the Swift Observatory, crucial for cosmic observations since 2004.

A three-armed spacecraft is rushing to the rescue of a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.

A first-of-its-kind mission launched Friday in the hopes of preventing NASA’s Swift Observatory from dropping out of low-Earth orbit.

After two delays in two days, Nasa has finally launched the Link spacecraft tasked with preventing one of its most successful space telescopes from gradually falling back to Earth.

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

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can give it a lifesaving boost

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