Brad Sanko
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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Swift was designed to study these short-lived flashes of high-energy radiation we call gamma-ray bursts.
Swift is a NASA astrophysics mission.
It was launched in 2004.
It has been doing fantastic science for over two decades now, but unfortunately, it's come into a spot of trouble recently.
But what's surprised us in the last few years is that the rate at which it has fallen has accelerated significantly.
Thanks to the sun.
You may have noticed that the sun has been much more active in the last year or two.
I've seen wonderful pictures, but every time I see one of those, I cringe.
Because every time the sun does that, it causes the Earth's atmosphere to puff up.
And that leads Swift to fall at a faster rate.
If we do nothing now, it will reenter the atmosphere probably by the end of this year.
sun's proclivities right so what's the plan to try to get it back up there and keep doing its thing so on friday a rocket was launched from the belly of a an airplane that took off from the marshall islands that rocket was carrying the link spacecraft in its nose went up into orbit close to swift
And everything is working well, all the systems on board.
That will continue for another week or so.
At that point, Link will then begin its slow approach towards Swift.
Over the period of a couple of weeks, it will attempt to sync up its orbit with Swift, get closer and closer.
push Swift into a higher orbit where it can continue to conduct its science observations.
And then ultimately, Link will let go, drop down to a lower altitude, and burn up in the atmosphere.
That's exactly right.
It has these three robotic arms that come off of the end.
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