NASA has called off the Swift Boost Mission, an ambitious effort designed to rescue the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as it falls out of orbit. The decision dooms the space observatory to a fiery destruction in Earth's atmosphere.
The mission was intended not only to save the aging telescope but also to serve as a demonstration of a novel concept in orbital rescue.
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AxiosHighlights the ambitious nature of the rescue concept and the inevitable atmospheric destruction.
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