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NASA’s Bold Rescue of Falling Space Telescope | Global News
- Published
- July 4, 2026
- Duration
- 1:48
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- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
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NASA’s last-ditch mission to save the plummeting Swift space telescope is underway, as a daring robotic rescue craft called LINK races against time to grab the aging observatory before it slips below a critical altitude. Launched just weeks ago, LINK—built in under a year by Katalyst Space Technologies—must navigate the moving target of Swift, which detec…
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NASA’s last-ditch mission to save the plummeting Swift space telescope is underway, as a daring robotic rescue craft called LINK races against time to grab the aging observatory before it slips below a critical altitude. Launched just weeks ago, LINK—built in under a year by Katalyst Space Technologies—must navigate the moving target of Swift, which detects cosmic explosions so powerful they outshine the sun for billions of years. With no prior in-space rescue ever attempted, this high-risk mane
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