Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory completes reentry over Indonesia

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory reentered Earth's atmosphere over western Indonesia on Wednesday, concluding almost 22 years of operations in space. The re-entry ended the gamma-ray burst hunter's mission after a failed attempt to rescue the spacecraft.

US Space Force tracking had predicted the observatory would reenter around 3:30 a.m. EST within a band 21 degrees north or south of the equator. The satellite spent more than two decades monitoring gamma-ray bursts before burning up during atmospheric reentry.