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1st-of-its-kind mission will attempt to save aging space telescope using robot spacecraft...NASA's Swift telescope could be destroyed in months if nothing is done.
Satellites don't always stay in orbit. As they get closer to Earth, atmospheric drag can pull them lower and lower until they burn up, with solar activity speeding up the process. NASA's Swift Space Observatory is facing that fate -- its orbit is decaying, an…
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