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The original was posted on /r/space by /u/Andromeda321 on 2026-08-19 18:47:38+00:00.
For those unaware, Swift was actually the most successful and most cited NASA telescope ever if you look at the number of citations. Despite this it has no replacement so there was hope that a mission could boost it into higher orbit, but it appears this was unsuccessful :(