The Swift Boost Mission will use a robotic servicing craft to grab and raise into a higher orbit the Swift Observatory before it falls into the Earth’s atmosphere When launched in 2004, the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory, with three telescopes on board, was a first-of-its kind spacecraft designed to explore gamma-ray bursts—the most powerful explosions in the universe caused by the death of massive stars and whic... [4007 chars]
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