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The agency had said most of the observatory would burn up during reentry and that the risk to people on Earth was low, according to CBS News. The telescope’s loss ends its observations of powerful cosmic explosions.
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NASA’s Swift space telescope reenters over Indonesia after 22 years
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NASA’s Swift observatory reentered Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia on Nov. 4, ending a mission that lasted more than two decades. A rescue attempt to raise its orbit had failed less than three months earlier.
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