Mission Fails to Move NASA Observatory
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
A Katalyst Space mission was a failure.
- A2
A space mission by Katalyst Space failed.
- B1
A mission by Katalyst Space failed to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
- B2
A commercial mission by Katalyst Space failed to raise the orbit of NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.
- C1
Since 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has studied cosmic explosions from low Earth orbit.
- C2
Since 2004, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has studied cosmic explosions from low Earth orbit, an area of space close to Earth where many satellites travel.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- orbit
- the curved path through which objects in space move around a planet or star
- orientation
- the position or direction of something in relation to its surroundings
- propulsion
- a force that pushes something forward
- risky
- involving the possibility of something bad happening
- drag
- the force that acts against the forward movement of something through a gas or a liquid
- altitude
- height above sea level or the earth's surface
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.