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

Almost 22 years aft it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is present astir to autumn backmost to Earth connected Wednesday aft attempts to propulsion it backmost into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging abstraction scope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's ambiance astatine astir 3:30AM ET (give oregon instrumentality 11 hours), and that it expects astir of the spacecraft to pain up, but immoderate components volition apt past re-entry.

The observatory weighs astir 3,200 pounds and measures successful astatine 5.6 meters (18.4 feet) precocious and 5.4 meters (17.7 feet) wide, though overmuch of the second includes its deployable star arrays. The hazard of surviving components causing …

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