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A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth

A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth

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Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or take 11 hours), and that […]

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