🔎 Today’s Daily Sift: Space Space just delivered two warnings from opposite ends of the frontier. NASA’s first attempt to rescue a dying space telescope has failed. On August 19, NASA and Katalyst Space abandoned an effort to raise the orbit of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the rescue spacecraft developed control problems. Swift has studied gamma ray bursts since 2004 and is now expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere later this year. That failure matters. Because satellites are becoming infrastructure. And infrastructure eventually needs maintenance. Repair. Refueling. Relocation. Autonomous servicing. The next space economy will require all of it. Then astronomy delivered the opposite signal. Researchers discovered S301, the fastest known star in the Milky Way. It reaches about 25,000 kilometers per second while racing around Sagittarius A*, the black hole at our galactic center. Its 8.7 year orbit brings it close enough that scientists may be able to mea...