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Swift Observatory Rescue Mission Ends | Honduras News
NASA’s last-ditch rescue mission to save the aging Swift Observatory has been called off after its rescue spacecraft, Link, suffered catastrophic control failures shortly after launch. Launched in 2004, Swift revolutionized astronomy by tracking cosmic explosions like gamma-ray bursts — now doomed to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year. Despite a $30 million investment and heroic efforts by Katalyst Space Technologies, Link’s uncontrollable spin and persistent pointing errors made capture impossible. Though the mission failed, engineers will use Link as a testbed for future space…
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