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A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth

· theverge.com · popularity 64/100 · 0 similar stories today · Space & Astronomy (Space & Astronomy)

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The Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, and is ‘unlikely’ to cause harm. Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA’s Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced …

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