ScienceA truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to fall back to Earth

Nearly 22 years after launch, NASA’s Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter the atmosphere on Wednesday after efforts to boost it into a higher orbit failed. Most of the spacecraft should burn up, though some parts may survive. NASA puts the risk of harm to anyone on Earth at about 1 in 2,100.

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