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Nasa’s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finale

First reported 2026-11-04 21:00 UTC · Updated 2026-11-04 23:46 UTC · 3 independent sources

Nasa’s Swift satellite ⁠telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out of orbit as expected on Wednesday and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency reported. The fiery demise of the Neil Gehrels Swift…

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  1. 2026-11-04 21:00 UTCEl Universo · eluniverso.com ↗
  2. 2026-11-04 23:34 UTCABC · abc.net.au ↗
  3. 2026-11-04 23:46 UTCSCMP via Reuters · scmp.com ↗

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