Thursday, February 16, 2012
What is Switzerland for?
News:
Couldn't resist. ¶ 8:52 AM
Swiss scientists plan to launch a "janitor satellite" specially designed to get rid of space junk, the orbiting debris that can do serious and costly damage to valuable satellites or even manned space ships.
The $11-million US satellite called CleanSpace One — the prototype for a family of such satellites — is being built by the Swiss Space Center at the Swiss Federal Institute for Technology in Lausanne, or EPFL.
Couldn't resist. ¶ 8:52 AM
