{"id":159784,"date":"2026-11-04T23:46:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159784"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:46:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:46:34","slug":"nasas-22-year-old-swift-satellite-telescope-falls-from-orbit-in-fiery-finaleunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159784","title":{"rendered":"Nasa\u2019s 22-year-old Swift satellite telescope falls from orbit in fiery finaleUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostNasa\u2019s Swift satellite \u2060telescope, 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\u2019s atmosphere over Indonesia, the space agency reported.<br \/>\nThe fiery demise of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, weighing roughly 3,200 pounds (1,452kg), came less than three months after a \u200crescue spacecraft failed its mission to boost the satellite to higher orbit and extend its life.<br \/>\nThe US Space Force&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3373323\/nasas-22-year-old-swift-satellite-telescope-falls-orbit-fiery-finale\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostNasa\u2019s Swift satellite \u2060telescope, which spent two decades studying the most powerful known blasts of energy in the cosmos, tumbled out&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159784"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}