{"id":243810,"date":"2026-09-09T01:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-restarts-swift-telescope-as-it-slowly-falls-toward-earth"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T06:26:20","slug":"nasa-restarts-swift-telescope-as-it-slowly-falls-toward-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/nasa-restarts-swift-telescope-as-it-slowly-falls-toward-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA Restarts Swift Telescope as It Slowly Falls Toward Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-restarts-swift-telescope-as-it-slowly-falls-toward-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Swift Telescope is back to watching the universe, but its orbit is still shrinking and time at its current altitude is running short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Swift Telescope is back to watching the universe, but its orbit is still shrinking and time at its current altitude is running short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}