{"id":3927810,"date":"2026-09-04T10:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rescue-satellite-gets-close-to-nasas-doomed-telescope-even-if-it-cant-save-it\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:03:37","slug":"rescue-satellite-gets-close-to-nasas-doomed-telescope-even-if-it-cant-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/rescue-satellite-gets-close-to-nasas-doomed-telescope-even-if-it-cant-save-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue satellite gets close to NASA&#8217;s doomed telescope, even if it can&#8217;t save it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA&#8217;s Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even snap photos more than a week after the rescue was abandoned.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-09-satellite-nasa-doomed-telescope.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A private spacecraft that was supposed to supply a lifeline to NASA&#8217;s Swift Observatory managed to get close to the sinking telescope and even snap photos more than a week after the rescue was abandoned. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}