Nasa fails to save Swift space telescope – and it will now plunge to Earth

Nasa has given up on trying to save a troubled space telescope and it will now plunge back down to Earth.The Swift Observatory has been slowly sinking out of its orbit, but Nasa said that attempts to push it back up had failed and that it will instead burn up in the atmosphere.Nasa and Katalyst Space Technologies announced the news more than a month after the startup's Link spacecraft rocketed away to the telescope's rescue.Katalyst said Link will not attempt to capture Swift and boost it to a higher orbit because of problems with controlling the spacecraft. NASA said this means the telescope will plunge through the atmosphere after more than 20 years of tracking some of the biggest explosions in the universe like gamma ray bursts and exploding stars. Its demise is not expected before Octo