NASA's Swift Observatory put in safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

The Register
Jan 20, 2022, 7:31 pm191 pts
To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space NASA has put its orbiting Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory into safe mode due to a suspected faulty reaction wheel, the first time this type of failure has occurred in its 17 years of operation.…

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