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Aging NASA telescope crashing to Earth

The aging observatory is losing altitude after more than 20 years in orbit, and officials say its systems are failing to keep it aloft.

An aging NASA telescope that has been in space for more than two decades is now barely keeping itself aloft.

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Aging NASA telescope crashing to Earth

An aging NASA telescope that has been in space for more than two decades is now barely keeping itself aloft.

·Missoula, United States
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By Andrea Colucci ROMA (ITALPRESS) For almost twenty-two years he looked at the most violent explosions of the Universe, observed dying stars and black holes, followed light signals coming from distances difficult even to imagine. Then, on November 4, NASA's Swift space telescope returned to Earth. Not with a scheduled landing, but disintegrating into [...]

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