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Chunks of falling spacecraft are landing in backyards as debris survives reentry more often

The odds of a piece of a spacecraft ending up in someone’s yard are climbing, and researchers say the trend is being driven ...
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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 ...

Mission launched to rescue a falling space telescope

Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is designed to capture and boost NASA's Swift observatory back to a safe altitude.

NASA Rushes to Rescue a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

Without a rescue mission, NASA’s Swift Observatory, which studies some of the most powerful explosions in the universe, will ...

A space telescope is falling to Earth. NASA plans a mission to rescue it

NASA plans to mount a daring mission to stave off the destruction of the Swift Observatory, which has been falling back to Earth. Here's how.
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Audacious mission to rescue NASA's falling telescope has launched

NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...
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26% chance of space debris falling through airspace this year, research says

(Gray News) – The risk of space debris falling through airspace is going up in 2026, according to researchers. Experts said spacecraft, or parts of one, fall back into the Earth’s atmosphere once a ...