{"id":3928765,"date":"2026-11-05T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasas-swift-telescope-has-burned-up-months-after-a-robot-sent-to-save-it-failed\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:01:18","slug":"nasas-swift-telescope-has-burned-up-months-after-a-robot-sent-to-save-it-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/nasas-swift-telescope-has-burned-up-months-after-a-robot-sent-to-save-it-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Swift telescope has burned up, months after a robot sent to save it failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>NASA&#8217;s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory took its last look at the sky on Oct. 20, 2026, while orbiting about 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth. NASA ended the telescope&#8217;s mission three days later, because Swift had sunk so low that drag from the thin air there meant its telescopes couldn&#8217;t hold steady.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-11-nasa-swift-telescope-months-robot.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory took its last look at the sky on Oct. 20, 2026, while orbiting about 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth. NASA ended the telescope&#8217;s mission three days later, because Swift had sunk so low that drag from the thin air there meant its telescopes couldn&#8217;t hold steady. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/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-3928765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928765","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=3928765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}