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

Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA's Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 3, 2026, 2:17 PM UTC

NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth's atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or take 11 hours), and that […].

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