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.

US space agency NASA is preparing to launch a robotic rescue mission to haul an ageing telescope into a higher orbit to save it from burning up as it falls back down to Earth. The…

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.