NASA Ends Science Mission of Swift Telescope After Two Decades of Operation

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission after the spacecraft began orbiting at an altitude of less than 275 kilometers above Earth. NASA announced the end of the mission before the spacecraft entered its re-entry phase.

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• The mission produced extensive scientific results that the observatory left behind.

  «Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza»

  NASA Science
• At the end of the mission, the spacecraft was orbiting at an altitude of less than 275 kilometers above Earth.

  «now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth’s»

  NASA Science
• NASA announced the end of the Swift Observatory mission before it entered the re-entry phase.

  «أعلنت ناسا انتهاء مهمة مرصد سويفت قبل دخوله مرحلة إعادة الدخول»

  NASA Science (.gov)

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