Wireva

NASA's Swift observatory falls back to Earth over western Indonesia

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentered the atmosphere over western Indonesia after more than twenty years of gamma-ray research, following a failed attempt to rescue it from orbital decay.

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reenters over Western Indonesia
NASA's Swift observatory falls back to Earth over western Indonesia
NASA E/PO, Sonoma State University/Aurore Simonnet · Public domain · rights
Monitoring item. The full text is not distributed. Extract and source below.

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentered the atmosphere over western Indonesia after more than twenty years of gamma-ray research, following a failed attempt to rescue it from orbital decay.

Same event, other desks

Story file →