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General Category => QSLs Received => Topic started by: Ct Yankee on October 17, 2026, 1451 UTC

Title: Swift Observatory Final Transmission eQSL - 16 OCT
Post by: Ct Yankee on October 17, 2026, 1451 UTC

Thanks for the eQSL and all the broadcasts - as Neil Young would sing: "It's better to burn out than to fade away"

(https://i.ibb.co/N203j9j1/Swift-Shortwave-QSL-Final.jpg) (https://ibb.co/DfBbC9CG)

This is the final transmission of the Swift Observatory launched on November 20, 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts and other high-energy cosmic events.  It is expected her plunge into the Earth's atmosphere leading to a fiery end will occur Oct-Nov 2026.  Reentry latitude is expected to span between 21 degrees North and 21 degrees South, with any surviving debris most likely falling into the ocean.   Amazingly engineers are still conducting science.

The last eQSL simulates Swift's fiery end via the  Kerbal Space Program.

Goodbye

Swift

Title: Re: Swift Observatory Final Transmission eQSL - 16 OCT
Post by: Radiouser on October 17, 2026, 1534 UTC

Same received here.

Title: Re: Swift Observatory Final Transmission eQSL - 16 OCT
Post by: Radio Star on October 17, 2026, 2152 UTC

Received the same as well.
Thanks Swift!