ScienceNASA abandons effort to rescue Swift telescope

NASA and Katalyst Space have ended plans for the Link spacecraft to capture and raise the Swift Observatory because of an ongoing attitude-control problem. Link will instead perform rendezvous and proximity operations to gather data, while NASA expects Swift to reenter and burn up later this year.

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