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The Swift Observatory, Doc and Boost to a higher orbit, extending the Swift mission's science life. The Swift Observatory is falling out of orbit, but NASA and Catalyst Space have a plan for 22 years. The Swift Observatory has been successfully hunting and bagging X-ray and gamma ray bursts, GRB. The launch, it launched with a nominal non-orbit lifetime of two years. The Swift Observatory's three instruments, the BAT, which detects and quickly points the telescope to a GRB. The X-rays telescope and the ultraviolet optical telescope are still working just... ...pager there.
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