1. Swiss satellite will clean up space, self-terminate.
Hmm a robot putting its life on the line to save humanity, where have I seen that before?
Oh yeah. The US$11 million CleanSpace One is being built at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology. The...

    Swiss satellite will clean up space, self-terminate.

    imageHmm a robot putting its life on the line to save humanity, where have I seen that before?

    Oh yeah. The US$11 million CleanSpace One is being built at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology. The first prototype model is expected to launch in three to five years where it will grab two Swiss satellites, before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere, where the three satellites will burn up.

    The U.S. NASA says over 500,000 pieces of spent rocket stages, broken satellites and other debris are being tracked as they orbit Earth.

    Swiss Space Center’s director, Volker Gass, said it hopes to someday “offer and sell a whole family of ready-made systems, designed as sustainably as possible, that are able to de-orbit several different kinds of satellites.”

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