NASA's race against time to rescue a falling satellite
NASA is attempting a first-of-its-kind robotic mission to save the aging Swift satellite from re-entering Earth’s atmosphere prematurely, using a refrigerator-sized autonomous spacecraft named Link to boost it into a higher orbit. The mission represents a bold leap in space sustainability
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