One of NASA's premier space telescopes has plunged to Earth, ending its 22-year investigation of the universe's biggest explosions.

By Steve Gorman Nov 4 (Reuters) – NASA’s Swift satellite telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected on Wednesday and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency… The post NASA’s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale appeared first on KSEV Radio 700.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) – An orbiting atmospheric research spacecraft has detected the pungent gas hydrogen chloride above surface fissures along a massive ancient volcano on Mars in a finding that suggests Earth’s planetary neighbor is still volcanically active. In a discovery… The post Pungent gas above Martian fissures hints at ongoing volcanism appeared first on KSEV Radio 700.

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to meet a fiery end early Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it launched to space

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By Steve Gorman Nov 3 (Reuters) – An aging NASA satellite telescope that a robotic spacecraft was sent to retrieve on a failed rescue mission this summer was headed for a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere early on Wednesday, nearly 22 years after it was… The post NASA’s Swift satellite telescope heads for fiery re-entry 22 years after launch appeared first on KSEV Radio 700.

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(Washington, D.C) — NASA says one of its satellites has ended its mission and is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere in the coming weeks. The agency did not specify a re-entry date for its Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory satellite. As of this week, the satellite… The post NASA Satellite To Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere appeared first on KSEV Radio 700.

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The U.S. Space Force predicts the Swift Observatory will come crashing down on or around Friday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. But a handful of pieces made of denser-than-lead tungsten and some mirror parts could survive reentry, according to NASA’s Brad Cenko, the miss

The Swift Observatory's mission is over after 22 years in orbit. NASA expects the satellite to re-enter Earth's atmosphere soon.