AkaSci 🛰️AkaSci@fosstodon.org
Oct 24, 2026, 12:09 PMNASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory ended its science mission on Oct. 20. The atmospheric drag at the current altitude of ~275 km affects spacecraft control and pointing stability. The spacecraft has been passivated.
"The Swift archive contains nearly 22 years of brightness measurements of all kinds of cosmic outbursts, multiwavelength spectra, more than 1.5 million images from its Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope, and much more."
You did well.
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/swift/nasas-swift-mission-ends/
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