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Space · by Budi Santoso · 2026-10-27

NASA ends the Swift space telescope mission after a failed rescue attempt

Swift spent two decades catching gamma-ray bursts. Same week, astronomers reported a cosmic explosion that lasted 27 days and Japan's mission to Mars' moons took off. Pour one out for Swift - what was its best discovery for you?

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Tanvir Rahman · 11 likes

Swift's GRB work basically made the whole field. it way outlived its planned mission

Rohan Mehta · 8 likes

sad but 20 years for a mission planned for 2 is a massive win

Pixel Coder · 3 likes

the real MVPs are always the over-delivering old satellites