Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory

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Thu 20 Jan 2022

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is an orbital observation platform launched by NASA on 20 November 2004. It was designed to look for gamma-ray bursts.

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off

Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date

Science19 Mar 2024 | 13

NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space

Science21 Jan 2022 | 6

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Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off

NASA's gamma-ray-burst alert satellite put into safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

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