{"id":25301,"date":"2026-06-29T13:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/?p=25301"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:12:16","slug":"nasa-to-launch-mission-to-save-space-observatory-from-earth-re-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/2026\/06\/29\/nasa-to-launch-mission-to-save-space-observatory-from-earth-re-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA To Launch Mission To Save Space Observatory From Earth Re-Entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\">NASA is preparing to launch a mission to save the ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from falling back to Earth after recent intense solar activity caused its orbit to decay more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The US$30 million mission, which could get underway as early as this week, will be carried out in partnership with Katalyst Space Technologies. A robotic spacecraft equipped with three arms will rendezvous with the observatory and boost it into a higher, more stable orbit, enabling it to continue observing some of the universe\u2019s biggest explosions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">The spacecraft is scheduled to launch aboard an air-launched Pegasus XL rocket from the Marshall Islands as early as this week. Swift, which has been operating since 2004, requires a higher orbit as soon as possible to avoid re-entering Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is preparing to launch a mission to save the ageing Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory from falling back to Earth after recent intense solar activity caused its orbit to decay more rapidly. The US$30 million mission, which could get underway as early as this week, will be carried out in partnership with Katalyst Space Technologies. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25305,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25301\/revisions\/25305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}