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NASA’s Swift Observatory in safe mode

Submit on Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 22:16

On the evening of Tuesday, 18 January, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory entered into safe mode, suspending pointed science observations. The mission team is investigating a possible failure of one of the spacecraft’s reaction wheels as the cause.

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