/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/10/4e/104e6a77-b931-4071-aee6-84803a2a78d2/swift_spacecraft_update_still-1603854877.jpg)
publications
This Week, NASA Will Launch a First-of-Its-Kind Mission to Save a Space Telescope That Has Observed the Sky for Nearly 22 Years
In 2024, researchers realized that the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was falling from its orbit faster than expected. Now, a robotic spacecraft called LINK aims to give the satellite a boost
Read full story on Smithsonian → More top stories
Aggregated and edited by the Scoop newsroom. We surface news from Smithsonian alongside other reporting so you can compare coverage in one place.
Editorial policy · Corrections · About Scoop