NASA sure seems to be asking an awful lot of private space stations

NASA this week released a much-anticipated document, known as a “draft Request for Proposals,” that provides some clarity ...

NASA’s mission to save a sinking space telescope

‘A lot will have to go right’ if first-of-its-kind Swift observatory rescue mission is to succeed ...
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A NASA space telescope is falling out of the sky, and to save it the agency skipped its own contractors and handed the job to a four-year-old startup that had never flow…

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster ...
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This Week, NASA Will Launch a First-of-Its-Kind Mission to Save a Space Telescope That Has Observed the Sky for Nearly 22 Years

In 2024, researchers realized that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was falling from its orbit faster than expected. Now, a robotic spacecraft called LINK aims to give the satellite a boost ...

A 22-year-old NASA telescope is quietly falling toward Earth, and a $30 million robotic lifesaver is launching this week in a first-of-its-kind rescue

NASA prepares a robotic mission to rescue the aging Swift telescope before orbital decay brings the observatory back to Earth ...

NASA rushes to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with $30 million rescue mission

CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA is racing to save an aging telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The $30 ...