NASA's robot rescue of the Swift space telescope launches June 30
by Gail Sherman from Boing Boing on (#76N65)
NASA will soon embark on a first-of-its-kind rescue mission, sending a robot to save a space observatory falling to Earth.
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a space observatory that uses three telescopes to study gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows across the gamma-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands. - Read the rest
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