NASA has launched the LINK spacecraft on a mission to rendezvous with the aging Swift observatory and boost it into a higher orbit before reentry.

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…

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

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…