Race against reentry: The wild plan to save a decaying NASA spacecraft

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Rendering of the LINK docking with Swift

In a historic first, Northrop Grumman is set to launch a rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope from plunging into the Earth's atmosphere using a service robot to capture the stricken craft and boost it into a new, safer orbit.

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Category: Space Systems, Engineering

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