{"id":803459,"date":"2026-08-23T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803459"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:20:31","slug":"a-nasa-telescope-is-slowly-plummeting-to-earth-and-theres-no-way-to-save-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803459","title":{"rendered":"A NASA telescope is slowly plummeting to earth and there&#039;s no way to save it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s Swift Observatory has orbited the Earth since 2004. It&#8217;s now falling towards earth, and after a failed mission to save it, NASA is leaving the doomed telescope to its fate.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/23\/nx-s1-5939831\/a-nasa-telescope-is-slowly-plummeting-to-earth-and-theres-no-way-to-save-it?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Swift Observatory has orbited the Earth since 2004. It&#8217;s now falling towards earth, and after a failed mission to save it, NASA is leaving the doomed telescope to its&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}